williamspd
Aug 8, 2017 · 1 min read

Who is this narcissist Nassim Nicholas Taleb? He makes insulting and poorly-evidenced attacks and tries to discredit scholars with slurs and then whines when they point out his prejudices and errors. Looks like someone is trying to stir up publicity to sell more books, as he says himself in his additional comments. Well, good luck to him with that enterprise. But he could take some lessons to avoid being crass, boorish and classless. I guess if this is representative of the type of ‘scholarship’ Americans go for, then it’s pretty clear whose academy is ‘broken’. Taleb is the Howard Stern of academia :-) I’m chuckling at his post-mud-slinging ‘yah boo sucks! you can’t hurt me with my own tactics’ comments. I guess he’s good value; entertaining up to a point. I wouldn’t turn to him for scholarship though, going by what I’ve read by him. Perhaps if he stuck to facts instead of insults, he might be more interesting and we might be more interested.

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