[ZeroGravitas]

There was a big Libertarian propaganda effort against Dvorak around that time.

They hate it for the same reason they hate recycling and climate change. It's a very visible and popular example of markets not being perfect and needing regulation to perform better.

It's highly likely that your source was in economics rather than ergonomics.

[slaughtr]

Do you have any source or further reading on this topic? The only thing I can readily find is you making similar comments on HN for the last decade, and I’d like to learn more.

[ZeroGravitas]

https://personal.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/keys1.html

Is the original paper that kicked it off, I think there was a few follow ups.

This wiki page has a snippet from a site talking about it that is no longer online:

https://wiki.c2.com/?TheFableOfTheKeys

http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/dissent.html

edit to add:

https://reason.com/1996/06/01/typing-errors/

Vs

https://dvorak-keyboard.com/anti-dvorak/