Response to Bowers

Inaccurate claims and motivated reasoning

Professor Jeffrey Bowers has written a long and ranty blog post full of screenshots of my tweets and from my blog. It’s tempting to ignore it and perhaps I should. However, it bothers me that the logo of the University of Bristol is displayed prominently on it and that this could lend it some authority in readers’ minds.

Bowers seems strangely preoccupie…