Wednesday, September 11, 2019

             ANNALS OF K STREET: A HERO FOR OUR TIMES

Apart from an open door policy for screeds by fossil fuel lobbyists and climate cranks, what do  American Greatness, FrontPage Magazine,  The Spectator,  The American Spectator,  The Federalist,  and American Thinker  ( 174  unedited essays by S. Fred Singer alone.) have in common ? Two things, it appears. 

Long lists of published articles by Professor John Anthony Glynn, Doctor of Clinical Psychology from the University of Hertfordshire, Head of Behavioral Science, Xavier University School of Medicine, Professor of Psychology, American University of Bahrain, Lecturer in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Webster University, and Senior Lecturer at Kolej Yayasan Selagor ,  plus a sad dearth of science editors.


Writing for American Spectator, he attacked climate  alarmism. Writing for the “pro-science” Center for Inquiry, he attacked those who attack climate-change . He praised China for its “wisdom, education, and scientific advancement” in The South China Morning Post, and denounced the Chinese as “evil” and “wicked” organ-harvesting murderers in Front Page Magazine.

The common denominator of this bipartisan polymath's credentials, which were good enough to get him gigs all over the hipster  spectrum, from The Globe and Mail, Huffington Post,  Skeptic Magazine, and Spiked,  to the Journal of Nutrition & Food Sciences, Psych Central,  Quillette,  Journal of Nutritional Health & Food Engineering, Standpoint,  Arts and Social Sciences Journal, Last Word on Sports, and I Am Hip-Hop. is that he made them all up.

Glynn  calculated correctly that no one would drop by the universities at which he claimed to teach, as they are respectively located in Aruba, Bahrein Thailand and Malaysia.

Hell hath no fury like a skeptic fleeced, and after a good long run,  Glynn has been rumbled by none other than Skeptic and sometime Scientific American Editor Michael Shermer:

https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/john-glynn-journalist-academic-fraud-exposed/