radken, go back and read what I wrote in post #99 on this thread. Fate has so far been very kind by giving the aviation world the chance to acknowledge these apparent flaws without loss of life or even serious airframe damage. And I do feel that it would be serious folly to ignore these warnings becase of the great economic stakes involved.
I am not sure whether the analogy is apt or not, but recall the warnings given by the Morton Thiokol engineer about the solid rocket booster O-rings on the Space Shuttle. They were ignored until calamity occurred.