Geoffrey MillerVerified account

Do you think the author should be fired for publishing this paper?

I think that pre-tenure faculty are (and should) be evaluated on the merits of their research, teaching, and mentoring. If this is the sort of scholarly work that a person is putting out, I can easily see them not clearing that bar.

Do you think judging the merits of scholarly work should include ideological evaluations of whether the work violates current cultural taboos or strays outside the Overton Window? If so, that's no real defense of academic freedom, is it?

They should not. They should be evaluated on rigor. But loose logic and weak data in support of ideological positions is a particularly dangerous brand of pseudoscience that we need to guard against (I assume you would agree, at least for left-wing claims).