Lapointe, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University, showed up on my Twitter feed (without being tagged or provoked) to denounce the PGR back in 2018. This outburst was puzzling, not only because I had had no contact with her, but also because a number of McMaster faculty regularly participate in the PGR surveys, and McMaster has often advertised its strong showing in several specialties. I asked a former student and friend of mine on the faculty there why she was so upset about this that she would attack me on Twitter out of the blue. Lapointe subsequently tweeted out this transmorgification of what happened:
Once I said something Leiter didn't like on Twitter and he called on my Chair to point it out to them. I don't know what were his intentions; hardly decent.
More accurate would have been: "Once I attacked Leiter on his Twitter thread out of the blue, and he asked his old friend and former student, a colleague of mine (who happened to be the chair at the time, but Leiter had no reason to know that), why I was so upset about this." Her lies were pointed out to her, even by her colleague who had actually corresponded with me, but to no avail. Lots of people retweeted Lapointe's lies. This is a standing problem with social media: fabrications by pathetic people get repeated as though they are factual.
ADDENDUM: Other examples of "fabrications by pathetic people" (see esp. Powell, Weiner).
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