[jancsika]

> Half his board, he explained unhappily, had told him that unless he pulled the article, they would all resign and “harass the journal” he had founded 25 years earlier “until it died.”

Half a board of academics skulking to avoid controversy, ok. But becoming a hive of killer bees threatening to attacking their own hive? That doesn't pass the smell test.

[daodedickinson]

Sounds exactly like standard academic politics to me.

[mirimir]

Do you argue that the author is lying?

[shard972]

Seems about right to me. Have you turned on a television in the last few years? People are out for blood these days.