[Article] Cheshire at it again: "Palaeographic Instruction for the Ischia Manuscript"

[LisaFaginDavis]

Clearly we can dismiss his work as entirely unsubstantiated. The real problem is that he formats these papers as if they were set by a publisher, giving the impression of peer-review and professionalism where there is none. Each of his papers presumes that the one before it is fact, even though all are entirely based on nothing but his own previous work. When you follow the trail back to the original piece, it is easy to see how the whole house of cards can be blown over by simply asking him (as I did) to demonstrate his methodology using logic that ISN'T circular or based on unsupported assumptions. He can't do it, and has nothing to fall back on except anger and offense.

It's one thing to post a blog promoting a theory...it is quite another to attempt to fool the reading public by formatting your work as if it were from a peer-reviewed journal (and as we all know, even that isn't necessarily trustworthy!). He has joined numerous medieval, linguistic, and digital-humanities listservs in order to promote his work in defiance of accepted norms of professional behavior and after multiple cease-and-desist notices from listserv administrators. He has also tried at times to use his own nickname for the VMS in papers submitted for peer review instead of citing it by shelfmark, again as a way of sneaking past peer review. It didn't work. He really just needs to give it up.