Cook’s methodology has never been taken seriously by anyone who is not an activist. It was intended to be propaganda from the time it was first conceived. Are you seriously arguing that it has any actual merit?
What made Cook's study important was that the deniers chose it as a hill to fight on, and only because the Oregon petition had been shot down and they wanted to "get even".
The underlying problem for the deniers is that it ends up in the hands Rick Santorum and notso Brightbart.