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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

Michigan, USA
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    David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Jul 2020

    David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Taylor Nichols, MD

    Long before Twitter, I started my first blog under a pseudonym. It took less than 4 months for a cancer quack to figure out who I was and start harassing me at work by emailing legal threats to my department chair, cancer center director, and division chief. The year? 2005.https://twitter.com/tnicholsmd/status/1282388232592752640 …

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    Taylor Nichols, MD @tnicholsmd
    No one is actually all that anonymous on social media. Keyboard warriors tweeting controversial takes from anon accounts should consider this before posting. Even if you change your name or Twitter handle, and especially when it’s still linked to an old account.
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    2:17 PM - 12 Jul 2020
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    • SandyM Gina Nicholas Jankowski Kreus leen arnaout Satyen S Nick Blackmer, Information Hunter/Gatherer Jason Erickson Pathological 🔬Jenn (She/Her)
    3 replies 18 retweets 127 likes
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      2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Jul 2020

        Basically, what I’m saying is that none of this is anything new. It’s just so much more intense since social media platforms like @Twitter, @Facebook, @instagram, etc., came into being.

        3 replies 2 retweets 27 likes
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      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Jul 2020

        My standard advice to those starting out and trying to remain anonymous is this. Unless you pseudonym is bulletproof, with no way to link it to your real identity you will eventually be outed if you are effective. (If you’re not effective, no one will go to the trouble.)

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      4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Jul 2020

        You have to be prepared for this. Indeed, sometimes even if your ‘nym is seemingly bulletproof, cranks will figure out who you are.

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      2. Taylor Nichols, MD‏ @tnicholsmd 12 Jul 2020
        Replying to @gorskon

        @gorskon Im sorry that happened to you, and I appreciate your relentlessness even a decade and a half later, continuing to strive for what is good and to make the world a better place. Thank you.

        1 reply 1 retweet 14 likes
      3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Jul 2020
        Replying to @tnicholsmd

        Thanks. In a perverse way, the idiot did me a favor. No longer worrying about staying anonymous was liberating. I realize, though, that as an academic I has a great deal of privilege protecting me through academic freedom and freedom of speech in university culture.

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      2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 12 Jul 2020
        Replying to @drhenrymyman

        And that is privilege that many do not have.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      1. Westley Ohman‏ @westleyohman 12 Jul 2020
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        Respectful Insolence? I remember that happening in quasi-real time. It was an important lesson for a college freshman to learn.

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