"A controversial point here I know but to what extent might your sources have been feeding you what you wanted to hear? "
You mean we asked for the name of an author and they didn't give it to us because they knew we really didn't want one - oh, come on, keep this discussion on ground level!
Do you have any evidence whatever that this is the case with our work, or anybody's working in the same field - just a little hint will do?
If we hadn't wanted to know we wouldn't have asked and just gone ahead and made unsubstatiated claims - in pretty well the same way as youi are at present
Even the anecdote you cited concerning Sharp is little more than a myth.
Your falling back on throwing stones from your armchair again.
Jim Carroll