<< I find it hard to believe scholars like these would want to blemish their resume` with fraudulent companies. >>
That is a ridiculous argument.
First, most workers don't know when a company is a scam. They just do their work and collect a paycheck.
For example, take Enron. Enron had about 29,000 employees before they went under (due to the fact that they were scamming people). How many of them knew it was a scam?
Arthur Anderson was also ruined by the Enron scam. They had another 28,000 employees. How many of them knew that the company was participating in a scam?
And that is just one scam out of 1000s.
Another example is Theranos. Theranos had about 800 employees. How many of them knew it was a scam.
Second, Dr Kane is no longer working for KBLB. Why is that? It could be because he found out that the whole thing was a scam.