The question here is why the NYT felt it necessary to publish his name. They unquestionably had the legal right to do it, much like they unquestionably have the

The question here is why the NYT felt it necessary to publish his name. They unquestionably had the legal right to do it, much like they unquestionably have the legal right to write a smear piece about HN with your full name, age, and city of residence... but why would they do that? The world does not revolve around you or I, but in general the people in it operate according to some kind of goal or motivation, and I am baffled by what the author of the NYT article felt he was achieving. He started by writing a story about a man who was consistently right about certain aspects of covid before the authorities, somehow started a fight with his subject, and ended up publishing a poorly written hatchet job with zero info about covid, coincidentally earning Scott quarter of a million dollars. What the hell did he want out of all this? What did he gain, what did he give his readers, what journalistic values did he uphold?