"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

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An antivaccine activist explains how she uses Facebook reporting algorithms to harass and silence pro-science bloggers

Post author By Orac
Post date April 1, 2016
129 Comments on An antivaccine activist explains how she uses Facebook reporting algorithms to harass and silence pro-science bloggers

I wish this post were an April Fools Day joke, but it is not. Three weeks ago, Skeptical Raptor and I wrote posts describing how a particularly vicious, nasty antivaccine troll named Heather Murray had successfully gamed Facebook reporting algorithms intended to report abuse in order to silence pro-science bloggers. It is, unfortunately, a tactic […]

Tags algorithm, Allison Hagood, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, antivaccine, April Fools Day, Facebook, Frau Heather, harassment, Heather Murray, Holocaust denial, vaccines

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Once again, Facebook reporting algorithms facilitate harassment of pro-science advocates by antivaccine cranks

Post author By Orac
Post date March 10, 2016
232 Comments on Once again, Facebook reporting algorithms facilitate harassment of pro-science advocates by antivaccine cranks

Nearly eleven years ago, back in April 2005, I opened my work e-mail (I was working at a different university back then) and saw an e-mail from someone whose name I had seen before, one Mr. William P. O’Neill. Opening the e-mail, I was shocked to find an e-mail to Orac; worse, the e-mail was […]

Tags Allison Hagood, antivaccine, Canadian Cancer Research Group, Dorit Rubinstein, Facebook, harassment, Heather Ann Murray, Peter Bowditch, sexual harassment, Skeptical Raptor, Stacy Mintzer Herlihy, Vaccine Resistance Movement, vaccines, William P. O'Neill

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