An example: The Germans were the bad guys in World War 2 but when they publicized the Katyn Forest Massacre committed by the Soviets they were telling the truth. It didn't matter that their motivation was to discredit the Soviets, what they were saying happened to be true.
So if Phase V were making up flat-out lies it should not take a year to disprove their allegations.
Refuting the Phase V allegations with the truth (assuming the allegations are false) would not be legitimizing every bash but responding in a timely fashion to allegations so serious that they helped impel Neil Woodford to stop investing in NWBO and have resulted in the huge losses that afflicted me.
By saying "well they're just lying Nazis" and ignoring the Katyn Forest Massacre we lured ourselves into a false sense of security about who the Soviets truly were and the result ended up being the Iron Curtain.
should a company legitimize every bash especially when they are a phony group that admittedly was attempting to short and evade litigation?
Especially true given the PhaseV disclaimer:
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