Trouble there is simple: academically, he hasn't really innovated anything substantial enough to bother discussing in isolation. I mean that in a purely descrip

Trouble there is simple: academically, he hasn't really innovated anything substantial enough to bother discussing in isolation. I mean that in a purely descriptive sense. Just take a look at his google scholar⁽¹⁾ or crossref search⁽²⁾ hits and gloss over the books, republications of books, translations of books. What remains are miscellaneous vagaries about tail risk etc. In particular, lots of reviews / position papers that amount to him just setting up strawmen to tear down. That contrarian browbeating is what drove him to prominence. And in sole-author article form, the attendant research laziness manifests itself as junk like this⁽³⁾ thing that's lower quality discussion of the subject matter than a lot of replication forum posts. ____________________ ¹ https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=64BtMdsAAAAJ https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=64BtMdsAAAAJ ² https://search.crossref.org/?q=%2BNassim+%2BTaleb&type=Journal+Article https://search.crossref.org/?q=%2BNassim+%2BTaleb&type=Journ... ³ Taleb, N.N., 2016. The Meta-Distribution of Standard P-Values. SSRN. http://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2834266 http://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2834266