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UCC moves to 'shut up' Evans

Written by Brian Hayes Curtin

Thursday, 20 May 2010

University College Cork has begun further disciplinary procedures against the lecturer who is embroiled in a sexual harassment row over an academic article on the sex life of fruit bats.

According to Dr Dylan Evans, he received a letter on Tuesday from the college saying it was initiating disciplinary procedures due to his "apparent involvement" in the posting of confidential material on the web.

The confidential material related to a complaint of inappropriate conduct made against him by a female colleague. Speaking to the Cork Independent, Dr Evans said that UCC authorities are suggesting he leaked the information. He plans to seek clarification as to whether they are accusing him of leaking confidential documents.

The lecturer in behavioural science at the School of Medicine denies releasing the information. "There's no evidence. Lots of people could have released it, including the claimant."

He believes that the "college just want me to shut up. "They didn't make any effort to rebut the evidence I gave," he added.

Attention

The case has attracted huge attention online and in newspapers abroad and is being seen as a freedom of speech issue.

A colleague complained about Dr Evans's attitude and behaviour towards her, which she said culminated in him showing her an article on the sexual habits of fruit bats on 2 November 2009.

Dr Evans said the article, which had appeared in an academic journal, was of scientific interest and he showed it to a number of people, only one of whom complained.

UCC is to set up a disciplinary hearing committee to investigate Dr Evans in relation to the leak. The college disciplinary procedures have a range of possible sanctions, including suspension, demotion, or dismissal.

Dr Evans is already subject to a period of monitoring and counselling arising from the complaints. There was no further comment from UCC yesterday. In her letter of complaint, Dr Evans' female colleague said the incident in question was "not the first time Dr Evans has raised sexual subjects with me" and on that day she felt his behaviour was "inappropriate and offensive".

The UCC investigators found the actions of Dr Evans up until 2 November did not constitute sexual harassment and said the complaints by the female lecturer were not malicious. They did uphold the complaint over the 2 November incident involving the now infamous paper about the bats, adding, however, that, "it was not Dr Evans's intention to cause offence".

Comments (2) »

Dylan Evans Wins Free Hadol for Life !-- Global Conspiracy @ UCC
written by Victor, May 24, 2010

We can now reveal the massive global Pharma/ Academic conspiracy that Dylan Evans, aka The Pink Panther, aka Austin Powers, has uncovered, – the crafty intrepid, crazy investigator that he is–

Now Evans has changed his story— yet again! — today he claims, in the Irish Daily Mail, that the whole # fruitbatgate thing was a hit job on him because he was investigating a vast secret conspiracy between Pharma and Academia— yawn

quote from a blogger

” The way you expose a pharmaceutical-funding corruption scandal is to show a paper on bat fellatio to the wife of a possible corruptee.
Works every time.”

see —http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/05/bat_sex_is_not_protected_by_ac.php

Evans has completely lost his marbles– time for the white coats and the funny farm again, like when he went psychotic after his Scottish commune blew up.

Evans has done a lot of damage to the cause of Academic Freedom by crying wolf, lying and, in the end going bat-shit crazy

Evidence
written by Liam, May 20, 2010

Didn't the documents first appear on his Facebook page? This does not necessarily mean that Evans posted them there, but it must be someone close to him that would have his password. His claims that the claimant could have put them there is clearly a lie.

His credibility is being eroded day by day.

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