Who Is Blake Whiting?
theamericanscholar.orgAs has been pointed out in another forum, it is instructive to consider what phrases rhyme with "Blake Whiting".
Let's commission Alan Smithee to make the documentary! ;-)
I've definitely noticed a huge increase in tangential slop when I've made the mistake of searching for books on Amazon in the last year.
I would not be surprised to learn that this has well funded conservative bad-think tanks, like the Heritage Foundation, creating or funding who creates these fake scholarly works. The reasoning being to destroy the reputation and power of academics that have the communication skills to explain why their policies are not only shortsighted, but amoral and evil. I sense this because if there is one glaring characteristic of the conservative mindset, it is shortsightedness.
You inventing a conspiracy theory based on your biases is not really comment-worthy.
I worked as a lobbyist briefly, and attending Heritage Foundation events. If you think this is "conspiracy theory territory" you're not awake, you're not following at all.
Even more shortsighted: spinning conspiracy theories when simple market forces will do just fine.
It's not always "market forces". Case in point: state sponsored hackers and trolls. What speaks against market forces here is that "the collapse of Near Eastern civilizations in 1177 BCE" is not really a profitable subject.
> Yet somehow, Amazon’s “careful monitoring” failed to detect an author with no bio or online presence who published more than a dozen books on a host of subjects within a week.
We do not know this.
How do you think you would?
Do not know which part?