[notsosec]

Power in the sense he got completely cancelled in the west for saying things that are not considered taboo in other parts of the world.

[saghm]

I think most people consider "truth" to require a higher threshold than "some people believe it somewhere".

[peterfirefly]

The problem is that all our empirical data back up his (quite mild) point of view, whether we like it or not. I don't like it and don't think he does either.