I have no idea why people are giving this guy the benefit of the doubt in absurdum. Apparently if he quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, he is a cat. I mean

I have no idea why people are giving this guy the benefit of the doubt in absurdum. Apparently if he quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, he is a cat. I mean heck, among the first thing the guy did is to give interviews to dubious people (with slanted views matching the docs generalizations) and printing up a damn "Goolag" t-shirt? So even now with the benefit of hindsight people seem still convinced that this was more or less a scientific doc with no ideological bias. The ability to read between the lines seems to blinded by vague links to academic papers.