Matthew Turner, MD
Matthew Turner is an emergency medicine physician at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Hospital in Hershey, Pennsylvania. His scholarship spans emergency medicine, military medicine, infectious disease, medical history, and the intersection of medicine with warfare and public health. He has authored more than 35 peer-reviewed publications, with work appearing in Cureus, Military Medicine, the Emergency Medicine Journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases, the American Journal of Neuroradiology, and other journals.
Dr. Turner has long been interested in the intersection of medicine and history, with publications examining historical disease outbreaks, biological and chemical warfare, ancient pathology, toxicology, and military medical lessons. His work has explored topics ranging from yellow fever and anthrax as possible tools of biological warfare to the medical legacy of historical figures such as Akhenaten, Henry I, Justinian II, and Dominique-Jean Larrey. He also writes about the evolving world of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism, including modern conflict medicine and the use of chemical weapons by violent non-state actors. Professional updates are available on LinkedIn.
Conditions
The 764 Network is an unprecedented threat to pediatric health. As an EM physician, and as a parent that has seen the effects of 764 firsthand, we know the dangers that online networks like this pose. The 764 Network was…
The 764 Network is an unprecedented threat to pediatric health. As an EM physician, and as a parent that has seen the effects of 764 firsthand, we know the dangers that online networks like this pose.
The 764 Network was founded by Texas teenager Bradley Cadenhead. Cadenhead regularly blackmailed and sextorted children as he navigated multiple online platforms using hundreds of accounts. He rapidly gained online notoriety for forcing minors …
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The 764 network warning signs clinicians miss
Physicians
As physicians who regularly work with pediatric patients, and experts in counter-terrorism, we know firsthand the dangers that online radicalization poses to youth. Nihilistic violent extremism (NVE), which glorifies violence for the sake of violence, is on the rise globally.…
As physicians who regularly work with pediatric patients, and experts in counter-terrorism, we know firsthand the dangers that online radicalization poses to youth. Nihilistic violent extremism (NVE), which glorifies violence for the sake of violence, is on the rise globally. Many of these decentralized online networks, such as the 764 Network, specifically target children for recruitment. 764 has seen a sharp increase in popularity, and has become the …
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The true crime community is radicalizing kids online
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