(See also Scott's response: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/statement-on-new-york-times...)
"""The issue, it was clear to me, was that I told him I could not guarantee him the anonymity he’d been writing with. In fact, his real name was easy to find because people had shared it online for years and he had used it on a piece he’d written for a scientific journal. I did a Google search for Scott Alexander and one of the first results I saw in the auto-complete list was Scott Alexander Siskind."""
Reading the response, I don't think this is condeming Metz to live in infamy.