I agree, continuing to be uneducated while pushing your speculation is easy.
When trying to decide who is telling the truth, the key isn’t whether a guy got a big book deal. It’s how well what they claim matches reality.
When your claim is that you can’t explain your side, but instead people have to go read an entire book, it’s a cop-out. Offering a book is nice. Attacking people for not reading some book is lazy.
Explain how what you believe to be true fits into the reality of the world we live in. Answer the arguments. BTW, I’d say the same if some pro-Armstrong person was telling me I had to read a book Armstrong wrote.
Of course, you are free to argue that people should just read a book. But it isn’t part of the discussion, and doesn’t do anything for your point of view.