When a scam artist uses fraud to attack scholarship, it is not to improve scholarship. They're signalling a political position and a worldview. It is negative, hostile, and rage-filled -- and far more often than not it is an indication that their moral reasoning has been damaged. https://twitter.com/peterboghossian/status/1249911539156414465

Taking 40-50 words to say "pronouns in bio!" isn't smart. It's lazy ignorance with a verbal garnish.

The only thing worth noting here is how much time these masters of conversation spend telling their fans they don't need to read or listen to other people.

But then that's been the message all along. We hoaxed a few journal reviewers, so entire fields are trash.

Note that this dismissal now includes virtually anything in the humanities or social sciences they dislike -- well beyond the fields the few journals belonged to.

There's no positive attempt to substantiate actual claims about specific disciplines. The original fraud is asked to sustain an ever-expanding set of claims about fields, institutions, academia, society.

This isn't scholarship, or even really thought. It's a rant with a fanbase.

Meanwhile, two of the three fraudsters spend part of their time promoting junk history, while the third defends her own publication of a known fraud and a plagiarist in her journal.

Because, you know, real Science and Scholarship are vital to Civilization.