[tveita]

It's pretty dubious that he says "I hit on the idea of identifying proper names in the text", like it was a novel idea.

One recent attempt: same method, drastically different results: http://cms.herbalgram.org/herbalgram/issue100/hg100-feat-voy...

[MichaelGG]

Remember, journalism. If he even said that, his next sentence might have been "Of course, that had been tried a thousand times and wasn't very new by itself."