[pwinnski]

It would be worth noting what percentage of castle from this same period feature a moat or crenelations or arrow slits, right?

The book is about why it's actually a myth. This article is about how stories get started and passed down with no basis in fact, and is really promotional material for the book.

And here we are in 2021, and people are defending a story invented in 1902 about design decisions made more than 500 years prior, and it's unclear how many of them had even heard the original myth before reading this article!

The gnosticism is very strong today.

[jandrese]

It would make sense that military secrets like opting for right hand spirals would not appear in popular publications.

Even the 70/30 split mentioned in the article is telling. If it truly did not matter then you would expect a 50/50 split, so there is a thumb on the scale somewhere. Maybe some early famous castles had them and the feature was replicated in newer castles? But what if the original castles had them for defensive purposes? The newer castles could have been built with defensive features they didn't fully understand.

[jeltz]

I don't think many people are defending the myth, most just seem to critisize bad arguments. Just because something is not supported by facts does not make all counter arguments automatically valid.