Scott Alexander Self-Cancels His Blog Under Threat of Being Doxed by the NYT
23rd June 2020
Steve Sailer reports.
As I’ve often mentioned, a psychiatrist who blogs under the name Scott Alexander at his site Slate Star Codex (an anagram of his pen name) emerged as the most brilliant new public intellectual of the 2010s. His combination of extremely high IQ, unbelievably long attention span, and an almost saintly disposition have endeared him to many.
But now his blog is gone, because the New York Times was about to dox his real surname.
This is why we can’t have nice things.