Totally. He comments on well documented pieces of work (at least Taubes', I'm not familiar with the other one) and discard huge part of them without bringing an

Totally. He comments on well documented pieces of work (at least Taubes', I'm not familiar with the other one) and discard huge part of them without bringing any evidence whatsoever (he even seems to admit that his wife is the expert on the topic of understanding statistics!). I like Taubes work because he's thorough and refutable (notably in refuting a lot of other studies). Doesn't mean he's always right, but I've yet to see arguments against his work that are as sound as the one he brought to the table.