Flutterby™! : On clueless gits trying to subvert language

Another because I'm sure this grift is gonna come around multiple times, and I didn't link to at least one extensive takedown of the "paper" referenced here: Dave Karpf: Pamela Paul, Cancel Culture Grifters, and the Republic of Letters — It's 2023. How is this possibly still a thing?

The latest entry into this overstuffed binder of photocopied anecdotes comes from Pamela Paul. Her column this week, titled “A paper that says science should be impartial was rejected by major journals. You can’t make this up,” makes it abundantly clear that she has zero familiarity with scientific journals, the peer review process, or how academia works. It’s clear that Paul chose to devote her scarce column inches to this topic because it aligns with her general worldview that there exists a righteous, meritocratic status hierarchy, and that is terribly threatened by those who fail to appreciate the status quo ante. Pamela Paul is a citizen of the Republic of Letters; its borders must be zealously defended.

Here's Keiran Healy's take on the paper.