[Skybird]

The author has not claimed to have produced an academic paper. What he did is giving a chain of thoughts.

Let's be pragmatic. So what decides the worth of it is not his repuation so much, but whether it makes sense or not what he tries to argue. To me, he is just pointing out the obvious.

And plain sane reason sometimes is of more value than the alternative realaties the academic spirit can get itself entangled in - in quite often in modern times, it seems to me, because the scientific business community is being haunted by corruption itself.