“...derision piled on a researcher with the audacity to suggest they might have a better way.”
I believe the negative reactions to this article are for several reasons: 1. The self righteous condiscention displayed in the title to a program that has helped 10s of millions over the decades. 2.The fact that it is written by a raging liberal/progressive rag. 3.The gratuitous attacks of a program where spituality, relationship with a higher power ie. God is such an integral part of it’s whole. 4. The implication that anyone who might utilize such a program might not sharpest knife in the drawer. 5. The fact that so many charletons over the years have represented many of the same things as this article claims with oftentimes catastrophic results.
To name a few.
And you believe any of the things you list fall outside the scope of my thesis...where?