Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:
Liar. Here’s an old email to me in which Wade explains your hoax about his “academic career being threatened by anonymous internet posters” to an unfortunate fellow who bit on your 30k email jihad you waged against him in an effort to impugn his integrity and besmirch his good name. The only person who threatened Wade was Rob “hocus” Bennett.
“Dear Vivek,
I understand that Rob Bennett has sucked you into his drama. I’m Wade
Pfau, the academic researcher who has allegedly been threatened. In
writing about your tweet at his blog today, Rob even wrote, “(A number
of Buy-and-Holders threatened to send defamatory e-mails to Wade’s
employer in an effort to get him fired from his job for the “crime” of
having published research showing the dangers of Buy-and-Hold
investing strategies and several big names in the field [including
Vanguard Founder John Bogle] failed to take action against those
advancing the threats, thereby implicitly encouraging them [I have
sent Bogle four e-mails asking for his help with the matter])”
I can assure you that this is all part of Rob’s vast mythology in
which he seeks to make himself into a super hero fighting the evils of
Wall Street. It isn’t true. Rob magnified a very minor situation by
10,000x. The entire story he developed is based on the one minor
comment found here at the start of this discussion board thread:
http://boards.fool.com/hocus-gets-college-prof-to-question-swr-studies-29265775.aspx?sort=whole
“I hope this doesn’t ruin that guy’s chances for tenure.”
That’s it. He imagined all of the subsequent details.
At any rate, I did indeed publish the studies which Rob claims I am
afraid to publish. There is no issue. The main study is this one:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09603107.2011.648317
Rob lives in an imaginary world of death threats and threatened
academic researchers and so on, as you would discover if you waste
time reading what he writes. Just thought I’d let you know, straight
from the horse’s mouth.
Best wishes, Wade”
In ordinary circumstances, I would not post this comment, Long Time. Since you are a Goon, there is obviously a good chance that Wade never sent this e-mail and that you just made it up. If that’s the case, I shouldn’t post the comment.
However, the full reality here is that Wade has cooperated with you Goons on several occasions. I don’t personally believe that the chances that your report is accurate are zero. That’s a shocking statement. But it is the behavior that we have all seen from Wade in the days following the threats that were made against him that makes it seem at least somewhat possible that your report is an accurate one. So I believe that your comment should be posted and added to the record that your jury will review when your trial date arrives.
As always, I wish you all good things.
Rob
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