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Kil
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Posted - 08/10/2013 :  09:17:46   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
By the way. I think Barbara is right in theory. But if the investigation didn't allow Stollznow and Baxter to rebut Radford, then there was something wrong with the investigation, and not the concept of protecting both parties until a conclusion is arrived at. This is a system failure on the part of the CFI investigation and Baxter has a right to be pissed off about it.

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Dave W.
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Posted - 08/10/2013 :  09:30:41   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Kil

Originally posted by tomk80

I see on the facebook page that people keep pointing to PZ as the one who outed Ben Redford. He wasn't the one that did that.
True. He reported to a much larger readership than the tweet.
Murphy's tweet included hashtags "#skeptic #atheist #shame." How many people follow at least one of them?

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Posted - 08/10/2013 :  09:33:47   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by tomk80

I never made the assumption that the list would be extraordinarily long from what she had written previously. I always thought it was a small number of people. But that might just be me.
I was agreeing with you. You said, "Well, here you have them," and I was saying, "yes, all of them."

Just in case someone reading was wondering how many more shoes are still in states of high potential energy.

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tomk80
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Posted - 08/10/2013 :  10:07:55   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit tomk80's Homepage Send tomk80 a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Dave W.

Originally posted by tomk80

I never made the assumption that the list would be extraordinarily long from what she had written previously. I always thought it was a small number of people. But that might just be me.
I was agreeing with you. You said, "Well, here you have them," and I was saying, "yes, all of them."

Just in case someone reading was wondering how many more shoes are still in states of high potential energy.

Okay, than I misread you.

Tom

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Kil
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Posted - 08/10/2013 :  10:23:03   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Dave:
Murphy's tweet included hashtags "#skeptic #atheist #shame." How many people follow at least one of them?

Yeah. Maybe there were more people who saw that. I dunno. But Myers blog has more impact on the community. (Communities?) It might be misinformation that the news was first reported by Myers. But that's what I thought too, as mentioned earlier in this thread.

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Dave W.
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Posted - 08/10/2013 :  12:14:26   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Kil

But Myers blog has more impact on the community. (Communities?) It might be misinformation that the news was first reported by Myers. But that's what I thought too, as mentioned earlier in this thread.
I'm having trouble figuring out why it'd even be an issue had Myers been first. Would it have been better if Stollznow had tweeted it first? Better still if she'd named him in the blog piece along with all the other info?

Ian Murphy tweeted Radford's name because he had lunch with Stollznow and asked her if it'd be okay for him to do so. Apparently, she said, "yes," so it's clear she wanted Radford publicly named, and so I suppose she would have eventually done so herself. So why would Myers doing so be a problem in any way, regardless the timing?

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Kil
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Posted - 08/10/2013 :  12:25:22   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Dave W.

Originally posted by Kil

But Myers blog has more impact on the community. (Communities?) It might be misinformation that the news was first reported by Myers. But that's what I thought too, as mentioned earlier in this thread.
I'm having trouble figuring out why it'd even be an issue had Myers been first. Would it have been better if Stollznow had tweeted it first? Better still if she'd named him in the blog piece along with all the other info?

Ian Murphy tweeted Radford's name because he had lunch with Stollznow and asked her if it'd be okay for him to do so. Apparently, she said, "yes," so it's clear she wanted Radford publicly named, and so I suppose she would have eventually done so herself. So why would Myers doing so be a problem in any way, regardless the timing?
I've already explained why I had a problem with Myers post. I happened to have been wrong. I didn't know that Stollznow had given permission to anyone when I objected.

After she wrote that article/blog, I felt that the respectful thing to do would be to have her permission first. And since her permission had been granted, I withdrew my complaint.

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Dave W.
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Posted - 08/10/2013 :  13:43:39   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Okay.

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tomk80
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Posted - 08/10/2013 :  14:15:54   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit tomk80's Homepage Send tomk80 a Private Message  Reply with Quote
According to PZ, he now has an anonymous corroborating account of Michael Shermer's behavior, from someone who does not particularly like him.

The fact that these accounts are so far not public remains something I am a bit uncomfortable with, but that can't be helped.

Tom

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Dave W.
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Posted - 08/10/2013 :  16:47:56   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Jason Thibeault: The web of trust: Why I believe Shermer’s accusers
Humans place a high priority on preventing breaches of trust in interactions — the script goes, if someone is a known scam artist, we take pains to inform people to watch out for their tricks (and thus the entire skeptic movement was born). If someone is a known thief, we take pains to inform people to stow their valuables in their presence. But for some reason, when we talk about rape and sexual assault, the desire to warn people to be wary around them is superceded by fears that any particular warning might be *wrong*, because then you’re doing damage to a person without good cause...

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Posted - 08/10/2013 :  17:44:00   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by tomk80

According to PZ, he now has an anonymous corroborating account of Michael Shermer's behavior, from someone who does not particularly like him.
I had pronoun trouble with this until I read PZ's update. The person doesn't particularly like PZ Myers. I first read the "him" as referring to Shermer.

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tomk80
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Posted - 08/10/2013 :  17:55:33   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit tomk80's Homepage Send tomk80 a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Dave W.

Originally posted by tomk80

According to PZ, he now has an anonymous corroborating account of Michael Shermer's behavior, from someone who does not particularly like him.
I had pronoun trouble with this until I read PZ's update. The person doesn't particularly like PZ Myers. I first read the "him" as referring to Shermer.

I can see that. I should stop typing when I'm tired

Tom

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Dave W.
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Posted - 08/11/2013 :  06:00:58   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Jim C. Hines:

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Kil
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Posted - 08/11/2013 :  09:32:23   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Sigh...

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ThorGoLucky
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Posted - 08/12/2013 :  06:35:37   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit ThorGoLucky's Homepage Send ThorGoLucky a Private Message  Reply with Quote
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