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Could this be a grievance studies[0] sort of arrangement? Was 'Mohamad' a real person or was he a sockpuppet for fringe research?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair



He’s real enough to have appeared as the first author on a couple of apolitical peer-reviewed publications in his field. I don’t know what possessed him to do this but he definitely looks to be real.




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