Can anyone link to the harassment/threats he mentions? (Mostly the latter, I'm sure there was much harassment but I have yet to see any real "threats").
The article gives zero indication of exactly what this harassment was. Just because someone feels like they were harassed does not mean they were actually harassed. It would have been very beneficial if the article could have pointed to the specific acts which caused the person to feel that they were being harassed.
I think there are two separate threads running through this. One is his academic criticism of their work through the academic publishing process. I hope no one would describe that as 'harassment', irrespective of how much his academic output focused on challenging their work. The other is his extremely poor and possibly slightly autistic Slack behaviour, fixating on his disapproval of their work and repeatedly bringing it up in even the most marginally related contexts. That part I would agree rises, or at least arguably rises, to the level of harassment.
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