Scott never published his real name on his blog, he merely made it possible to find it with some sleuthing. Lots of SSC readers never knew his name, because they didn't do so. The ability to find his name with sleuthing was never Scott's concern. 1/3
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His main concern was that patients could find his real name and his secondary concern was that crazy people could easily find it. 2/3
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now, why would scott alexander siskind not want his patients to find that he used their cases for general entertainment of his blog readers? that's somewhat a mystery to my, but perhaps you have some insight here…
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It is fully consistent with APA guidelines to publish anonymized cases. If you have information that he didn't do so, you should report him to APA. But surely you are just a troll.
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Replying to @NotoriousAapje @_amtiskaw and
It's not about whether he committed a formal APA violation, it's about whether his patients might have been offended if they'd known the way he talked about patients on his blog, and if they'd have had a right to know about him doing so before going to him for treatment
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Replying to @arthur_affect @_amtiskaw and
The APA standard doesn't require consent or approval, so this is irrelevant. Any patient can read the APA guidelines and is at risk of being published about anonymously by any psychiatrist. If you have an issue with that, you should take it up with APA, not Scott.
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Replying to @NotoriousAapje @_amtiskaw and
I just said I don't care about the APA standard and I am not talking about it I'm not part of any professional association that says I can't say Scott's real name if I want to either
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Replying to @arthur_affect @_amtiskaw and
The difference is that talking about anonymized patients isn't de-anonymizing them... Duh.
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Replying to @NotoriousAapje @_amtiskaw and
Journalists are under no professional ethical obligation to respect the anonymity of public figures and at times the whole basis of their profession is undermining it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @_amtiskaw and
Siskind wasn't a public figure. Scott Alexander was marginally so. And I do consider the ethical standards of journalists to be unethical...
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Barring some kind of Hollywood Jekyll and Hyde personality disorder, it was still "Scott Alexander" who was treating patients
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