That's not a bad article by the Chronicle. Of course, like all of their articles they fail to refrain from using every third sentence to remind us how sacrosanct academia is.
But this makes a good point "But even as Mr. Jones's title and academic credentials give hope to the conspiracy theorists, his role in the movement may undermine those same credentials. What happens when science tries to function in a fringe crusade?" On an internet forum I cited Massimo De Angelis's article on Hayek and Bentham from RPE and was immediately replied to with something laong the lines of "pffft who cares thats just a conspiracy theory journal).
