For the opposite side of this, I highly recommend that people read http://eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-beigeness-or-how-to-kill..., which does a thorough explanation of why Scott is a bad writer and how he promotes incorrect and damaging views. Scott's entire game is to use rhetoric to support poorly backed hypotheses like "feminism is terrible".

There was literally a women in the rationalist community who committed suicide due to harassment and Scott's first reaction was to insinuate that all of her accusations were false.