You didn't call him an "anti-vax conspiracy nutso" in the first comment, you said he was "pretty insane based on his tweets" with no other context (though I, an

You didn't call him an "anti-vax conspiracy nutso" in the first comment, you said he was "pretty insane based on his tweets" with no other context (though I, and probably others, found the anti-vax stuff based on looking it up). (I didn't downvote/flag it, but I'm not vouching/upvoting it either, this comment is much better than your first.) As to turning a dissertation into a book, it's sufficiently common that universities like Georgetown have content like this on their university library site referencing other major universities: https://library.georgetown.edu/scholarly-communication/etds-publishing https://library.georgetown.edu/scholarly-communication/etds-...