TM - if any part of 'sticking one's head in the sand' can be defined as 'not listening', you seem to be suffering the same affliction!
many of us (including me!) have, for many months, despaired of the lack of any info coming out of Brunty - but now that it does, you chose to disbelieve it!
something tells me that it will take nothing short of Dr. P standing up and publicly saying "Tim McLelland is completely right!" for your stylus to escape the scratch in which it is clearly lodged!
if you are so convinced that Dr. P's main motivation behind all of this is to line his own pockets (a common theme on here!), don't you think he'd be exploring every 'self-preservation' possibility - aka more HLF money?
Tim, you can't have your cake and eat it I'm afraid!
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