A true scholar is tenacious in pursuing the truth. Here’s an example.
Doron Witzum, co-discoverer of the famous codes that he believes are hidden in the Bible (a discovery for which he shared the 1997 Ig Nobel Literature Prize), has written many papers in response to critics. Some of these papers have lengthy titles, such as the one that begins “A Response to McKay’s Response to My Response to His Response Concerning My Article…” Read that paper here. See a list of it and other papers here.