You might be right! I haven’t read the story; I have only Scott Alexander’s word to go on, and he isn’t trustworthy.
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I'm concerned how that kind of one-sided decision-making ("your opsec sucks so we will refuse you the right to a pen name") is disastrous for so many people with far fewer connections than him (and much more to lose). Pen names are a basic right they normally respect.
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Without injecting the name here: the argument is a mental health professional who has been secretly cultivating a community around a eugenics movement, and who has on multiple occasions described patient outcomes in detail including location might have had this coming.
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Replying to @KirinDave @zeynep and
Ignore opsec for a moment. If he's discussing patient details, locations and dating material; that's a big ethics red flag we can't simply handwave away with pseudonymity.
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Replying to @KirinDave @zeynep and
The man in question here *specifically* says, "If my patients read my writing it would make it hard for them to listen to me, and that would impact my business." Folks nod like this is fair, but is it actually fair to patients to suggest they're not allowed to know this?
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Replying to @KirinDave @zeynep and
You may find this argument fails to compel you, but that's the argument.
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A "he deserves de-anonymizing" because his of his views argument is different. Does not seem to be what NYT was doing or defending. And, yes, of course, therapists deserve extra consideration for privacy and pen names! (As do many others! Pen names are a basic right).
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Replying to @zeynep @KirinDave and
How is using your first and middle name a "pen name"
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Replying to @melissamcewen @KirinDave and
Quality of opsec should not be the criteria for right to pen name of any type. His first and middle name did not, until very recently, lead to his blog for many pages of Google searches. I know lots of people in vulnerable positions who enjoy similar obscurity protections.
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Replying to @zeynep @KirinDave and
I would argue it was never a pen name. He used his full name to publish in a journal as noted by
@ElSandifer. He blogged and was featured on rationalist blogs under his full name. His insistence that no one use his full name is relatively recent.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
I've seen a lot of activists in vulnerable positions do just that; retreat from earlier public writings to a pen name, and it certainly helped them; friction is genuinely protective. One NYT article would utterly ruin it because now Google will pull it up.
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Replying to @zeynep @KirinDave and
Scott is white man with an MD not an activist and not in a vulnerable position though.
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Replying to @melissamcewen @zeynep and
The people who are vulnerable are his patients, who he regularly blogs about without their consent.
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