I have communicated with Ken White at Popehat, who often secures pro bono assistance for bloggers threatened with defamation suits. He has committed to help me and to attempt to secure counsel for me.

My ed at Scientific American Mind just told me that CFI issued a "legal challenge" for them to take down my article about sexual harassment

CFI depends heavily on donations for its income. Ms. Stollznow's false claims can be expected to have an adverse impact on our ability to raise funds. Indeed, following the appearance of Ms. Stollznow's blog post, I have already received two e-mails indicating that individuals would not support CFI. Ms. Stollznow's allegations also will have an adverse effect on our ability to recruit staff.

I recognize that I cannot be un-biased about this, nor do I want to be. Karen is one of my closest friends, so is her husband. I was the officiant at their wedding – I performed the ceremony. A couple of years ago when we both had better work schedules, Karen and I had a standing coffee date. For about a year, we spent a couple of hours a day, three or four days a week together. It happened to be in many ways, what would be the peak of her harassment. I saw firsthand, the emails, text messages and phone calls that took place. Though it seemed like she received something from him every day, that’s probably not true. Certainly though, never a week went by without her receiving something. Though often thinly veiled, it was definitely inappropriate and over the long-term, constituted harassment.

In two multi-hour phone interviews and in about a dozen emails, this is exactly what I told the investigator that had been hired to investigate the matter. I also told them how it was so bad that I offered on numerous occasions to fly to the person’s home town and have a talk with him. To tell him that what he was doing was wrong and that he needed to stop it. She asked me not to because she thought he would just deny it and she hoped it would soon end. I think that since she is such a private person, having her personal dirty laundry aired would have been horribly embarrassing to her. Sadly, this is one of the reasons that this kind of behavior often goes unreported.