This is a separate issue now though. Just because something isn't completely proven (yet, anyway) doesn't mean that it doesn't already look bad from the outset

This is a separate issue now though. Just because something isn't completely proven (yet, anyway) doesn't mean that it doesn't already look bad from the outset. And if you listen to what they're actually saying, they're alleging retaliation, not merely disagreeing with the direction the company is going on.