greetings with shalom Silly Wabbit,
it doesn't appear consistent and i myself am hesitant to post anything about convo's with company executives here.
regarding the Kaplan affair; i think i would try an e-mail to Ben (subject line-Dr. Kaplan Resignation)stating that you received a puzzling response from Dr. Kaplan regarding an inquiry ( cc the e-mail from Kaplan to Ben) and ask him (Ben) about it. just an idea.
imho, i do not agree with the speculative story that he was harrased by kblb shareholders; i tend to lean on the possibility that he was already working with another company who might have put a bit of pressure on him once they saw him on the kblb web site. I also tend to think that Kim T and D Kaplan are probably still collaborating together or at least the lines of communication are still open.
no biggie either way, we have many positives going our way , you never know, we might be better off without Kaplan.