It is very important for the propagandist to determine that some researcher is wrong about some things. It is part of the agenda to discredit researchers who threaten the all important Agenda, the preconceived ideas of the propagandist. So the propagandist will read a book in need of blacklisting and will focus on marginal issues, on the peripherals. When some mistake is found in the target research that needs to be discredited, these mistakes will be blown up out of proportion and beyond all recognition. The propagandist positively revels in the footnotes and in obscure terminology.
Intellectual poverty is the true product of the propagandist.
This is a good day's work for the propagandist. Of course the propagandist can also be a scholar, well-trained in how to conduct research. This is not so unusual. But a true scholar can never be a propagandist. Click here to go one level up in the directory.