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See "Beating Back Cancel Culture: A Case Study from the Field of Artificial Intelligence" written by Pedro Domingos.

Salem Village farmer Giles Corey was accused of being a wizard during the Massachusetts witch trials of the late 17th century. The way the law worked then, if he pleaded to the charge, they could take all of his possessions after they found him guilty and killed him. To protect his children’s inheritance, he simply refused to plead. So they slowly piled rocks on him (“pressing,” as it was then known), and every so often asked him, “How do you plead?” The only answer they ever got out of him was, “more weight,” and on the third day he died,

‘More Weight’: An Academic’s Guide to Surviving Campus Witch Hunts", Quillette, written by Dorian S. AbbotFebruray 5, 2021.

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