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Prominent MIT researcher Kerry Emanuel has been receiving an unprecedented frenzy of hate after a video featuring an interview with him was published recently by Climate Desk.
Emails contained veiled threats against my wife, and other tangible threats, Emanuel, a highly-regarded atmospheric scientist and director of MITs Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate program, said in an interview. They were vile, these emails. They were the kind of emails nobody would like to receive.
What was a little bit new about it was dragging family members into it and feeling that my family might be under threat, so naturally I didnt feel very good about that at all, Emanuel said. I thought it was low to drag somebodys spouse into arguments like this.
Climate Desk has seen a sample of the emails and can confirm they are laced with menacing language and expletives, and contain personal threats of violence.
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/issue/
DontTreadOnMe
(2,442 posts)It's time for the Justice Department to trace these kinds of emails and make a very public investigation about those who are making threats via email.
dembotoz
(16,734 posts)we alway talk about the guts required to set sail due west off to the "new world"
perhaps we should also talk about the guts it took to take an unpopular stand
TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)Amerigo Vespucci
before him,
Leif Erikson
before him,
Nomadic Mongols
and somewhere in there... perhaps... the Phoenicians, the Japanese, the Chinese
deniers & cowards
yup