Gross bungling of primary sources
- interpreting them in crazy ways. Eg. Sheldon Pollock [YT17]
Severe lack of contextual knowledge
- leading to crazy (yet vehement) extrapolations.
- The typical indologist’s evaluation of (even modern, let alone ancient) India can be silly, condescending and demeaning? Just take this recent example.
“Intellectual yet idiot” phenomenon
- More here.