EAllusion wrote: If Will's work buried critical arguments re: Book of Abraham under Mt. Doom, I think people would be giddy to get that out in the open. So if his publication was killed, while it may have passed muster, people probably weren't necessarily thrilled to pieces with it.
That's a good point and it raises what I think is a really interesting question. Namely: To what extent would an article have to be powerful and persuasive enough for the M.I. to overlook the author's scumbag behavior?
And another thought occurs to me. I wonder if they will simply appropriate Will's ideas and have someone else put them into print. Maybe the Maxwell Institute decided that it would be best to kick Will himself to the curb but to go ahead and use his ideas anyhow.