Certainly the analysis was scientific and well-sourced rather than stemming directly from a single unnamed Czech guy whose grandfather ate puppies and had a matching BFF necklace with Hitler, right?
Ah, maybe giving too much credit. I’d wager it was some shoddily plastered together hitpiece written by some amateur historian wehraboo teenagers passed off as peer-reviewed. That or a collection of Wikipedia articles, though there’s not much of a meaningful difference there.
Amateur historian wehraboo probably hits the mark. It’s some smug anonymous asshole who does “scientific investigations” on mostly tech libertarian topics. He wrote a whole series on the economic history of the USSR, another on how publicly funded R&D isn’t all that, and a libertarian take on women in STEM fields (they’re just not interested in those jobs guys). In a subsequent breath he says he doesn’t engage with political issues too much. Ok buddy. His USSR bit got picked up by the Adam Smith Institute and his blog got a grant from a Peter Thiel associated “research center.”
Certainly the analysis was scientific and well-sourced rather than stemming directly from a single unnamed Czech guy whose grandfather ate puppies and had a matching BFF necklace with Hitler, right?
Ah, maybe giving too much credit. I’d wager it was some shoddily plastered together hitpiece written by some amateur historian wehraboo teenagers passed off as peer-reviewed. That or a collection of Wikipedia articles, though there’s not much of a meaningful difference there.
Amateur historian wehraboo probably hits the mark. It’s some smug anonymous asshole who does “scientific investigations” on mostly tech libertarian topics. He wrote a whole series on the economic history of the USSR, another on how publicly funded R&D isn’t all that, and a libertarian take on women in STEM fields (they’re just not interested in those jobs guys). In a subsequent breath he says he doesn’t engage with political issues too much. Ok buddy. His USSR bit got picked up by the Adam Smith Institute and his blog got a grant from a Peter Thiel associated “research center.”