(1) The "Grievance Hoax" (GH) by @peterboghossian et al. was not a "human subjects study" (HSS) subject to IRB regulations. Not in terms of its aims, methods, or results. It could not be replicated, nor could it have been published in a journal for such studies. Thread. (2) Did the GH not undertake to systematically provide "generalizable knowledge" about the editors and referees for the papers and thus about GS? As a comparison, consider a professor who prank-called members of the Trump administration in order to display its incompetence.