Somehow Ichikawa (part of the miscreant team from Vancouver) thinks that the unfortunate disagreement (and, in part, misunderstanding) between the PGR editors, Professors Brogaard and Pynes, and Wiley-Blackwell, shows that I'm not honest (!). (A reader sent me his tweet [we are mutually blocked on Twitter] stating, "Brian Leiter is not an honest person, and the PGR is intellectually bankrupt.") Since I literally have nothing do with any of this (I appointed Brogaard as a co-editor in 2014, and then Pynes as another co-editor for 2017, at which point they were in charge, and I have only offered them advice about the PGR when asked, and that's it), this really is a stretch even by Ichihkawa's standards of dishonesty, which are, to be sure, peerless. (Recall that when Ichikawa and Carrie Jenkins were challenged over their defamation of me, their own lawyer would not defend their statements as true [see #5], arguing only that they were "lawful.")
There are two other ironies here, beyond the "pot calling the kettle black."
First, as an alert reader pointed out to me awhile back, a recent external review of Ichikawa's department at British Columbia began by noting its improved PGR rankings as evidence of the department's strength! (Scroll to page 111 to see the summary of the review.). They didn't think to mention that the PGR was "intellectually bankrupt" according to one member of the department.
Second, when Ichikawa was an undergraduate at Rice back in the 2000s, he reached out to me when I was at UT Austin, for advice about graduate school, and in particular whether he should go to Brown to work with Ernie Sosa. I told him that was a very good option to have, and off he went, and then followed Sosa to Rutgers. I generally try to help undergraduates in need of advice, and of course had no reason then to suspect what a slimeball Ichikawa would become. No good deed goes unpunished, as the saying goes.
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