Their PhDs are pastede on yay!
This is quite old, but I don't think I've seen it on FW before...

Buffy Studies, is, as everyone knows, a serious academic discipline. But when fandom and academia collide, the results can be mighty splodgy.

Bluntinstrument.org.uk is a fansite dedicated to Christophe Beck, the composer of, among other things, BtVS. An anonymouse submits a report on the first Buffy Studies conference, focusing on the two music panels. The anonymouse criticises the first panel, calling the session "academically ... disappointing - to the more intelligent members of the audience at any rate", accuses one of the presenters of Teh Plagirism, and speculates that "perhaps she was expecting the event to have been more along the lines of a fan convention than an academic research conference, but her work really was out of place at the latter."

Academic A is first off the mark with, "I ... am a musicologist and a senior lecturer in music, and the paper is thoroughly grounded in theory, despite the writer's implication that it wasn't."

Academic B, the one criticised for reportedly not knowing the difference between a fan convention and an academic conference, also responds; the essence of her reply can be summed up with, "My work is enjoyed by both waitresses and college professors" < /Anne Rice>.

A sockpuppet random academic also in the audience during the presentations takes great offence to the anon reviewer's insinuation that the members of the audience were unintellegent, and chimes in with, "As a senior lecture, I clearly regard myself as an intelligent academic and I am one who has particular research interests in this field."

Academic C attempts to defend his colleague from Teh Plagirism accusation, but does so in a curiously backhanded manner, before dismissing her work as mere "useful groundwork", and summing up the whole conference as not "the kind of conference where one would necessarily expect to encounter profound, groundbreaking research." He goes on to dispute the sockpuppet's "Senior Lecture"'s claim to be all that intelligent.

Teh alleged Plagirist comes back two months later: "Apologies for the delay in replying as I was in San Juan, Puerto Rico, researching in various popular music archives for the last three months." After defending her use of somebody else's idea, and using equipment problems and health issues to explain her responses to the audience's questions, she asserts that, "Whilst some in the audience may have felt patronised by listening to something they could have delivered ... they didn't."

Anon attacks - check! Teh Plagirism - check! Accusations of being a stupidhead - check! Sockpuppets - check! Incessant flashing of credentials - check! Mmmm, AcademicWank...