> This is an investigative substack, not a piece of academic literature.

Professional news is usually written without expressing judgement and minimizing opinion.

> fraudsters

It's an allegation.

The author only hurts themself: My impression is that they don't believet the fundamentals of truth and humanity: they are certainly partially wrong, could be very wrong, will never know the complete truth, and their judgment of others is too flawed to rely on. Also it seems they are acting more on their emotions and less on fact and reason.