ATheir academics He has long been accused of writing full of jargon that is impossible to understand. One recent cautionary tale was that of Allie Lux, the researcher who sparked a social media storm with an innocuous post on X celebrating the completion of her project. pHD. If it was the subject of Ms. Lux’s research (“The Ethics of Smell” – The Politics of Smell) that caught the attention of online critics, it was the abstractness of her lengthy dissertation that angered them most. Within two weeks, the post had more than 21,000 retweets and 100 million views.
