Editors of Quest discovered the Instagram account the energy feed when Kuyper was mentioned as a possible new editor-in-chief. Non-scientifically substantiated theories about, among other things, the functioning of the human body are shared on this now protected account.
The (former) employees of Quest were concerned about how the ideas of the new editor-in-chief clash with the values of a scientific journal. Publisher Hearst brushed these concerns off the table at the time and hired Kuyper after all.
“We have a policy of diversity and inclusion. As far as we’re concerned, the examples you mentioned of non-scientific expressions by Lyn on her social media account fall into this category,” Hearst CEO Marscha Krouwel wrote in an email late last year. year published by No styleto employees.
At the same time got Quest faced losses and a significant number of editors were laid off. Kuyper’s contract was extended.
‘I can’t get corona, because I took a cold shower’
Now people who have worked with Kuyper are clapping the opposite Villamedia about her behavior in the workplace. For example, a colleague allegedly told her about someone who had died from the consequences of the corona virus. Kuyper would have responded that that person must have had something else among the members, because corona does not kill you.
She would also have been informed that she had cuddled with an employee who had tested positive for the corona virus. “It doesn’t matter. I can’t get corona, because I had a cold shower this morning,” she is said to have responded. She would also have told employees with the flu or a burnout that they “have the flu and a burnout”. She insinuated that the employees chose to be sick and unable to work.
Her Instagram page included a theory that rice spoils less quickly if you talk to it nicely. In addition, several conspiracy theories from a Telegram group were shared in her Instagram stories.
The (former) editors of Quest share their story anonymously, because they leave a non-disclosure agreement had to sign. In it they promise “not to speak negatively about it Quest or publisher Hearst”. If not signed, they would not receive severance pay.
Hearst and the editors of Quest have on Villamedia in de Volkskrant let it be known that it did not want to comment on the statements of the employees for the time being.
