As an outsider to this space, it seems suspect that all of the people he has a beef with (like LaCun) will gladly cite others and predecessors, but not Schmidhu

As an outsider to this space, it seems suspect that all of the people he has a beef with (like LaCun) will gladly cite others and predecessors, but not Schmidhuber. Has he explained his reasons for thinking there is some conspiracy? Otherwise it reflects badly on his assessment of himself, or possibly his mental state.