It is a response and that is all that is needed. The target audience for this just needed any rebuttal to paste into their streams to convince themselves that no adjustment of beliefs is required.
I agree. The damage is already done. It's going to take a response tenfold the magnitude of this publication to rebut it. Even then there's going to be people citing it.
All granted that it's true that RR was so far off to begin with.
All granted that it's true that RR was so far off to begin with.