[Eupolemos]

Well, it is still a variation "On Bullshit" (Harry Frankfurt's excellent article). If someone in science is more interested in a position than whether the presented arguments individually holds up or not, that person is unscientifically invested and we should have some kind of mental allergic reaction to that.

The "Publish or Perish" has made Gish Gallops much harder to catch and almost impossible to punish.

[n4r9]

There's also the entertaining "On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs" by David Graeber, although it has less to say specifically about science: http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/