P. S. - Wasn't there a thread at MADB last year wherein Daniel C. Peterson used an anonymous source to ascribe some manner of wrongdoing or unprofessional conduct to Grant H. Palmer?
Let's not forget the whole Robert Ritner scandal either. For several years Dan propagated the myth that Ritner was reprimanded and thrown off John Gee's dissertation committee, because of anti-Mormon bias or what not. He never once provided a source, but only assured us all that he neck-deep in the ongoing exchanges at the time. Of course Ritner threatened to post the actual emails that would prove Dan was not telling the truth, and then suddenly Dan shut his trap and never spoke a word about the subject since!
And of course the Metcalfe myths that festered and mutated through the years on the LDS apologetic e-lists. Tvetdness, Midgley and others loved to share their stories based on hearsay, about how Metcalfe swindled a grieving widow into selling him the KEP photos, saying she never would have done so if she knew Metcalfe was a wolf in sheep's clothing, etc. All of this, of course, was pure bunk. Base manure fabricated from the LDS gossip mill.