It's truly amazing the things that can become "historical facts" under this sort of flexible definition of reality. In that sense, the assertion that the Lady Hope - Darwin recantation fable is true has about the same validity as claims that, based on "hanging chads" and "rigged" butterfly ballots, Al Gore actually won the 2000 Presidential election.
IOW, what you are witnessing is the sort of "flexible epistemology" so frequently employed by Losers on the Left, who can't accept the fact that the public rejects their fantasy version of reality. The anti-Evo "warriors," waging le guerre savage against the "evils of Evilootion," use the same technique, and for the same purpose.