> I can't believe I just read that. What's the bar for a bad person if you haven't passed it at "it was simply easier to do the bad thing?"

For starters, the bar should be way higher than accusations from a random person.

For me,there's a red flag in the story: posting reviews and criticism of other papers is very mundane in academia. Some Nobel laureates even authored papers rejecting established theories. The very nature of peer review involves challenging claims.

So where is the author's paper featuring commentaries and letters, subjecting the author's own criticism to peer review?