Most anti-Chomskyans are dogmatists and never accept the charge, charging Chomskyans of dogmatism instead.

They try to revive an updated version of behaviorism or Saussurean linguistics quite often, which don't work. Can't describe and explain the language faculty adequately using exclusively collected corpora and statistical analysis. That would just be describing and explaining language history and how languages operate within their cultures, not how language as a whole is actually acquired or evolved.

My guess as to the real reasons why: 1. He's American 2. He's an anarchist 3. He's smarter than almost anybody Academics and scholars, even great scientists, are not without prejudice and confirmation bias, and they are also much better at rationalizing it than others, through clever false justification. The same goes for hostile emotions as well, such as pride, envy and competition. Sometimes (so-called) 'intellectuals' can be the most intellectually dishonest people out there.

Why is he a genius?