JC: Bearman being the prat who tried to get Malcolm Taylor sacked as EFDSS librarian?
No thanks.

So you're going to dismiss without even looking at it a paper critical of Harker just because the author produced an intemperate rant about a BBC programme and a Telegraph article?

People can be personally unappealing yet still produce good research, and Taylor himself has described some of Bearman's work as "the best in the field".

I read both the open letter and the paper and while the open letter was definitely a bit infantile, the paper criticising Harker's work seemed pretty robust. But since you refuse to read it because you consider Bearman a "prat", I guess you'll never know.