Agreed. What I called a straw man in the OP could also be characterized as a simplification to get his point across to lay-audiences. (Personally I dont agree w

Agreed. What I called a straw man in the OP could also be characterized as a simplification to get his point across to lay-audiences. (Personally I dont agree with the simplification, per my other post). It's meant for popular audiences (as someone else points out, this is from a sci-fi magazine)