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>Scientific American Editor revealed as harassing aspiring female writer (monicacatherine.wordpress.com)

Titles wrong, which is a good reason to have left it as is. This is libellous.

He was not 'harassing' her. It was one incident. All other communications was by her.

Also not clear if he was representing his employer at the time. So it also shouldn't have been stated. It's not a witch hunt.


He was not harassing her, she just had an unpleasant conversation with him (from the sounds of it). If that is reason enough to out somebody on the internet as a sexual predator, I'm sorry, but that's way over the top.


Struggled to come up with an appropriate title for this, feel free to change it.

His statement shortly after: http://blog.coturnix.org/2013/10/15/this-happenned/

For people unaware of the science journalism community, Bora Zivkovic is one of the largest figures and leaders in the field, if not the largest.


The title makes it sound like a Scientific American editor is a female writer that harasses people.

"Aspiring female writer reveals that Scientific American Editor harassed her" is what you should have named this to be clear.


I just changed it to the title of the page to avoid any misunderstanding.


While the guy's behaviour was blatantly inappropriate for a professional meeting I'd hesitate to say he was harassing her in the active sense. That has different connotations to me anyway.

Still, if he can't resist unprofessional misconduct whenever he meets a woman this sort of public humiliation might have been sadly necessary.




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