If you were going to present such a position you should have the foresight to know people will be very dismissive of you for even proposing such a thing, so it

If you were going to present such a position you should have the foresight to know people will be very dismissive of you for even proposing such a thing, so it should come with a flurry of 'before you dismiss me outright' type of preambles, which I don't really see here. It's easy to be quickly dismissive on the internet, hell I'm sure most of us who are being dismissive haven't really dug into any of his arguments. It's just difficult to motivate people to do that when that's your starting proposition. Maybe something got lost in between the way it was presented by journalists but he chose to completely side-step the contents in his blog post so it's the only thing we've got.