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This problem is not specific to SCIRO...
I know of the very clever female astrophysicist who suffered a long years of harassment from a guy who knew her from visiting the local astronomy club as a student. The letters he wrote (and they were cc-ed to a number of people, most of them were not even known to her) were absolutely disgusting.. I personally couldn't do anything specific about it but I felt I simply have to apologise to her in a separate email and distance myself from his actions.
The problem was, he was (when we were mates as teenagers) quite OK guy, but subsequently something cracked in his head... and he was basically beyond help (and he really needed a professional help IMO).
All this did not have a visible impact to her professional career as astrophysicist and university lecturer/professor (at least what I know and hope for).
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