Here's the first account I found of what happened:<p><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-21/one-statistics-professor-was-just-banned-google-here-his-story" rel="nofollow">http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-21/one-statistics-prof...</a><p>If you can find a better account of the history of this event then I'd be grateful.<p><i>Update:</i> Here is the HN discussion from a day ago:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15065742" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15065742</a>