Summarizing the Current Allegations Against Richard Carrier
June 20, 2016
Stephanie Zvan
Stephanie Zvan is the producer of The Humanist Hour podcast. She's also one of the hosts for the Minnesota Atheists' radio show and podcast, Atheists Talk.
Skepticon has just released a statement saying that Richard Carrier will not be allowed to attend their future conferences because of inappropriate behavior. They had previously stopped inviting him to speak after he displayed a pattern of pushing a staffers boundaries.
In light of the recent revelations of sexual harassment, unwelcome attention, and/or unwanted behavior from more than one prominent atheist, Skepticon would like to renew our vow to keep our attendees, speakers, volunteers, vendors, organizers, and anyone else involved in Skepticon safe at our events.
The accusations specifically against Richard Carrier are, sadly, not so surprising to the Skepticon organizers. While he was a featured speaker for many years, we stopped inviting him to speak partly because of his repeated boundary-pushing behavior, including towards someone involved in Skepticon. What has been made clear by the recent discussions is that our attendees well being and comfort is put at an unacceptable risk by Carriers presence, and so we are officially prohibiting Richard Carrier from attending any future Skepticons.
In case you missed it last week, this is the third allegation of flatly unacceptable behavior from Carrier to be made public. The first he publicized himself.
http://the-orbit.net/almostdiamonds/2016/06/20/summarizing-current-allegations-richard-carrier/
https://skepticon.org/keeping-skepticon-safe-richard-carrier-to-be-banned/