Someone said they didn’t trust Julia Wise as the contact person for mental health because one time she shared/published a sensitive private correspondence without the author’s permission. I have no idea if this is true or just a nasty rumour, but either way something bad has happened. This is a thorny issue and I was very tempted to not publish it, but the whole point of this exercise is to air uncomfortable criticisms so here we are.
This is true and well-documented, see here (under confidentiality mistakes) and here. I do consider it a nontrivially large mistake, but I think we all have had made nontrivial mistakes on the job, and I personally do not see this as disqualifying Julia.
Sorry I should’ve been more clear in my comment. The links should’ve been pretty obvious though (like it was important enough to be prominently on CEA’s list of mistakes).
This is true and well-documented, see here (under confidentiality mistakes) and here. I do consider it a nontrivially large mistake, but I think we all have had made nontrivial mistakes on the job, and I personally do not see this as disqualifying Julia.
I’m troubled that the version of the story you heard didn’t mention it was a fuckup she repeatedly apologised for.
Sorry I should’ve been more clear in my comment. The links should’ve been pretty obvious though (like it was important enough to be prominently on CEA’s list of mistakes).
I meant Hamish
Yeah, hard to know what to do with that. I’ll make it clear in the post that it is an acknowledged mistake that has been apologised for.
Great, thank you.
I will update the bullet point with a link to your comment.