[Ichneumon]

Argh, typo in my post #325... In the line, "She could not possibly have read that material and still been under the impression that the research she claims 'didn't exist' actually DID exist..." the "DID" should of course be "DIDN'T".

[edsheppa]

There is another explanation although it's hardly more favorable. AC might simply have referenced material she had not read. If so, she didn't lie but rather only employed very shoddy scholarship.

I only suggest the possibility. IMO probably she knew exactly what she was doing - she knows readership quite well.