This is about as "Well, duh!" a study as I've ever seen, but I suppose it's useful to quantify the prevalence and intensity of the harassment. I could tell the writer stories that'd curl his hair. 1/https://twitter.com/Skepticscalpel/status/1374415333822402560 …
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Replying to @gorskon
It's the main reason I don't identify myself. I spoke out about something publicly once a few years back. It went viral and my office was bombarded by calls for nearly a month. The lesson I learned was that anonymity is happiness.
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Replying to @DoctorDyre99 @gorskon
Plus work social media policy prohibits “controversial” subject matter, where controversial is what HR defines it as.
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Replying to @Balgor11 @DoctorDyre99
That's one advantage of being an academic. Basically, my chair and dean view attacks on me as attacks on academic freedom and usually have my back. 11 years ago, antivaxxers bombarded the board of governors of my university with bogus complaints, and my dean had my back.
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I also realize that people working in private industry don't have that luxury and might get shut up because their bosses just don't want to be bothered with cranks complaining about their social media activity.
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To give you an idea, occasionally when I see my cancer center director around the clinic he'll jokingly inform me that he hasn't received any complaints about my blog or Twitter ramblings lately. My canned response is to promise to try harder.
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