{"id":85349,"date":"2018-12-01T07:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/neil-degrasse-tyson-under-investigation-at-fox-after-3-women-accuse-him-of-sexual-misconduct"},"modified":"2018-12-01T07:02:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T15:02:23","slug":"neil-degrasse-tyson-under-investigation-at-fox-after-3-women-accuse-him-of-sexual-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/neil-degrasse-tyson-under-investigation-at-fox-after-3-women-accuse-him-of-sexual-misconduct","title":{"rendered":"Neil deGrasse Tyson under investigation at Fox after 3 women accuse him of sexual misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neil-degrasse-tyson-under-investigation-at-fox-after-3-women-accuse-him-of-sexual-misconduct.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li>Fox and the producers of \u201cCosmos\u201d have opened an investigation into multiple sexual misconduct claims against the show\u2019s host, astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Katelyn N. Allers of Bucknell University claimed deGrasse Tyson groped her at an event in 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Another woman, Ashley Watson, claimed that she quit her former job as Tyson\u2019s assistant in response to repeated inappropriate sexual advances he made toward her.<\/li>\n<li>Both allegations came to light roughly a year after musician Tchiya Amet claimed that Tyson raped her when they were both graduate students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fox and the producers of the television series \u201cCosmos\u201d have opened an investigation into multiple sexual misconduct claims against the show\u2019s host, Neil deGrasse Tyson. The move follows a report on the website Patheos in which two women accused Tyson of inappropriate sexual behavior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe credo at the heart of \u2018Cosmos\u2019 is to follow the evidence wherever it leads,\u201d the producers said in a joint statement. \u201cThe producers of \u2018Cosmos\u2019 can do no less in this situation. We are committed to a thorough investigation of this matter and to act accordingly as soon as it is concluded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/neil-degrasse-tyson-sexual-misconduct-investigation-fox-cosmos-2018-11\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/neil-degrasse-tyson-sexual-m...018&#45;11<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox and the producers of \u201cCosmos\u201d have opened an investigation into multiple sexual misconduct claims against the show\u2019s host, astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson. Dr. Katelyn N. Allers of Bucknell University claimed deGrasse Tyson groped her at an event in 2009. Another woman, Ashley Watson, claimed that she quit her former job as Tyson\u2019s assistant in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}