With the benefit of, ohhhh minutes of experience behind me, I think the entire Part 61 debacle can be wrapped up - with some minor alterations - by the quote from Chet Beates' tome regarding Political Correctness.
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous (mainstream media) Governmental department, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
Seems quite apt, and there would appear to be a fair bit of overlap...
I also note that, while the impossibility of turd-polishing has been proven time and again, there remain those expert in the rather specialised field of rolling them in glitter and sticking lit sparklers in them.