Mike McCullough - the subject of this article - and I have mutual friends, and I have met him and enjoyed his company. While the tone of the article drifts a little towards politics, and the defence of any free speech for its own sake regardless of content, I think it covers some of the same turf as scientists working on cold fusion have experienced.
"(This article)......reveals also four problematic recent norms in academia: first, an academic career depends on personal and political matters; second, compliance is rewarded over scepticism; third, academic complaints are increasingly anti-intellectual; and fourth, logic and evidence are subordinated to feelings, even in the hardest of hard sciences."