Watson reported the incident to a producer on the show and said she was resigning. The producer suggested she tell everyone she would be leaving due to a 'family emergency.' Watson then found Amet online, and told her she believed her. Watson and Amet's allegations, along with those of another woman, Katelyn Allers (an astronomy and physics professor at Bucknell University) were published on Patheos last week. BuzzFeed spoke with a fourth woman who remains anonymous, who says she was harassed by Tyson 'at a holiday party for employees of the American Museum of Natural History' in 2010, when he allegedly propositioned her. 'In a 2014 email shared with BuzzFeed News, she described the incident to her own employer in order to shoot down a proposed collaboration with Tyson,' the site reports.ĭuring BuzzFeed's on-and-off three year investigation, they interviewed dozens of people. Most of the people interviewed lamented the prospect that damaging allegations might take down the world’s most famous living scientist - and perhaps the most famous black scientist in history - beloved for eviscerating so many of the stereotypes of the stuffy, out-of-touch academic.īut for Watson and Allers, the tragedy was the loss of a different black scientist: Amet. įor years, Amet had been trying to make the world listen to her account of a powerful man who had once assaulted her and derailed her life. Mainstream publications, including BuzzFeed News, were unable to adequately corroborate the events from so long ago, and did not publish her allegations.

And internet commenters assailed her character and New Age lifestyle. Her claims may have stayed buried forever, if not for the women who saw in Amet’s story a shadow of their own.

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