[gumby]

Oh come on: his craft is in generating the extended version of a TED talk. You feel good about yourself after reading them.

There's legitimate value in that.

[tom-thistime]

Are we disagreeing?

[gumby]

You said "he let us down", presumably because some of his research was found to have been wrong and/or shallow.

If you use the same perspective of a ted talk, false, bogus, or shallow work is the coin of the realm. He did not let you down.