This is what I’ve been dealing with the last few weeks.pic.twitter.com/dRjweWizqZ
Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.
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This is what I’ve been dealing with the last few weeks.pic.twitter.com/dRjweWizqZ
Sadly, this is what they do when they have no argument or evidence. I first experienced it in 2005(!), when I was blogging pseudonymously and my identity hadn’t yet publicly been linked to it.
A cancer quack named William O’Neill figured out who I was and started sending me legal threats, also CC:’d to my dept. chair, cancer center director, and division chief. At the time, it scared the crap out of me. Fortunately, my dept. chair backed me up, calling O’Neill a bully.
These days, this story sounds almost quaint, but it was very real. My blogging career almost ended then. There was no Twitter, no Facebook, no other easy way to harass someone. It was just blogs and email.
I realize my experience being doxxed 15 years ago is nothing like the experience of being doxxed now, particularly given that I was (and am) a cis white male. There were fewer ways to harass, and it was just bogus legal threats, not the threats of sexualized violence women get.
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