This all seems laughably silly. Someone writes a blog post about statistics; there's lots of commentary about the author's grasp of statistics; someone points out two errors in the statistics; but now in actual fact they weren't errors, they were deliberate errors. So either the author doesn't have a good grasp of statistics, as evidenced by the mistakes; or the author does have a good knowledge of statistics and inserts mistakes into his articles so he can criticize the people criticizing his article. What a lovely mess.
What were the canaries?
The internet is filled with trolls. Period. Sadly, even in "intelligent" circles.