The Slate Star Codex saga proves a new blasphemy code is emerging among liberals What a Scott Alexander’s real name is now in the public domain, but I won’t be using it in this column. He worked hard to protect his privacy during his seven years spent writing Slate Star Codex, a wildly popular blog that covered topics including medicine, politics and technology. And he had good reason to do so. For one thing, he is a practising psychiatrist who would rather not have his identity revealed to his patients. For another, he has never invited fame. Slate Star Codex was recently the subject of an unflattering article in the
1-5 Kickass Random Facts
1. Mercy dogs were trained during World War I to comfort mortally wounded soldiers as they died in no man’s land. – Source
2. Four high-school students in the ‘70s are the reason we no longer have pay toilets in America. They created an organization called CEPTIA and were able to successfully lobby against the issue. 8 years later, pay toilets were all but nonexistent throughout the US. – Source
3. If you get a zebrafish drunk and put it in a tank of sober zebrafish, the sober fish will adopt it as their leader and follow the drunk fish around the tank. – Source