It's done up in clean paper form. It's got the name of a major cryptography researcher on it. It has an abstract.

Does this mean I can sit down and write a similar-form paper consisting of wild speculation about Shamir being financially in bed with the Citi Foundation specifically to write hatchet-job pieces linking trivially-discoverably innocent people to black market drug bazaars?

No, of course not. I'm a nobody. But when Shamir does it, dozens of people spread it to thousands of others and now I}ruid is almost certainly wondering whether he's going to get a knock on his door.

How much more of a dick do you have to be before people in general just agree that it was a shitty thing to do with so little evidence?

It's not interesting, it's reputationally dishonest, and damaging.