There you have it . . . . same again for the second course. . . . two diametrically opposed opinions . . . one from seemingly a lounge chair expert, (apologies, if this is insulting to an expert witness), and one from a former Air NZ skipper, possibly jaundiced by clashes with management. Over and over, there have been a steam of often predictable, unreconcilable opinions, bruited back and forth, a great many of them resistant to substantiation.
The precise origins of the campaign to maintain and never let up on the vilification of Jim Collins are not particularly obvious. My suspicion is that the Ron Chippendale camp would not in a million years be able, or want to be able, to take a broad and reasoned view, subjecting every scintilla of evidence to dispassionate review. Those who claim this has been done and that such would be an exercise in futility are wrong. . . . more than wrong . . . they are as deluded as the world's most benighted ostrich.