So as I was writing my @ScienceBasedMed post for today about how proponents of pseudoscience and alternative medicine attack @Wikipedia and @jimmy_wales with conspiracy theories, I was reminded of an old and strange lie about me. 1/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/woo-versus-wikipedia/ …
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Not surprisingly, Rath's fans think I'm a pharma shill being paid to anonymously edit his Wikipedia entry. This is, of course, utter nonsense. 6/ http://www.aidsorigins.com/sites/all/files/pdfs/Wikipedias_Strange_Certainty.pdf …
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If you want the gory details of the conspiracy theory—imagine me, having my own conspiracy theory about me!—here it is in painful detail. 7/ https://wikipedia-sucks-badly.blogspot.com/2015/11/mathsci-and-mastcell.html …
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The hilarious thing is that, apparently, the antivax and quack conspiracy theory that I am MastCell seems to be based on a snarky comment by MastCell when asked if he/she were me. 8/ https://wikipedia-sucks-badly.blogspot.com/2017/03/gorski-ii-explaning-mastcell-in-painful.html …
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Basically, someone asked MastCell if he were I, and he responded, "Well, I make it a point not to comment one way or the other on speculation about my IRL identity. But that would indeed be high praise. Besides, if a quack said it on the Internet, it's probably... true?" 9/
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Obviously, MastCell, whoever that is, was yanking the questioner's chain. That didn't stop a whole bunch of cranks from concluding that MastCell and I are one and the same. We are most definitely not. 10/
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Let's just say that whoever does the "Wikipedia Sucks" blog ('nym: Strelnikov) is none too bright and quite credulous. 11/
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I guess the same applies to Gary Null, although I suppose it's possible he thinks I'm a different pseudonymous editor of Wikipedia. Somehow I doubt it, though. 12/
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After all, he sent me a nastygram from his lawyer telling me to cease and desist regarding articles from my blog and demanding that I tell Wikipedia to take down his bio—as if I had written it.
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He now has a FOIA request pending to look at my emails from my university account. Among his requests: Emails with
@jimmy_wales. I was highly amused and also honored that he thinks I hang with such high company. 14/Show this thread -
In any event, thus endeth a little history lesson and exploration into a distant and little known bit of my past as a blogger, from long before I ever became so active on Twitter. I hope it amused you as much as it amused me. 15/15
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