So some Nazi made a web page about me. Not gonna link to it obviously. What does one do about this? Just ignore it?
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Replying to @DrZackaryBerger
I had them do this to me years back. I ignored it and it seemed to have little consequence.
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle
In 2016, Mike Adams of Natural News launched a barrage of targeted articles about me. It ended up being more that 40 over the course of 6-8 months or so.
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Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle
This was the one time that I seriously thought of suing for libel. Ultimately, I did not, because I was sure that that's what Adams wanted me to do. Also, Adams had tens of millions of dollars at his disposal. I, although well of compared to the average person, did not.
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Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle
These posts by Adams were scurrilous. He accused me of being associated with Dr. Farid Fata, the Detroit-area oncologist who bilked Medicare and Medicaid for tens of millions of dollars by giving chemo to patients who didn't even have cancer and too much chemo to others.
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Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle
Adams also claimed that he was reporting me to the state attorney general and the local FBI office for unspecified "crimes." He even implied that I might be a pedophile. (Of course, the latter he did by implication, with plausible deniability.)
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Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle
Basically, I ended up ignoring it. Unfortunately, Adams was not alone, not was he the first. For instance, in 2010 Jake Crosby provoked age of Autism readers to launch an email and telephone campaign complaining about me to my university's board of governors.
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Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle
I could go on and on given that I've been at this for 15 years. Basically, my Google reputation has been trashed, probably irreparably, but definitely intentionally. It's what antivaxers and cranks do, and they do it to intimidate and bully critics into silence.
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Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle
Unfortunately, if you speak out against quacks and are effective at it, especially if you're a physician and at least 10-fold worse if you're a woman), you WILL be targeted. You have to be ready, and you have to be sure you can handle it.
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As for the issue of websites targeting you, I've had several over the years. Who knows? Some might still exist. There's really nothing you can do about them.
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Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle
I did, however, once manage to get an abusive Facebook page about me taken down. I had to claim copyright to photos used in memes about me to do it, though.
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Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle
The bottom line is that quacks, cranks, and antivaxers play dirty. Targeting the critic personally is how they operate to try to shut down criticism.
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