@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I was hesitant to write it.
The interview was more than an hour.
I'd probably need a half a day-1 d to refute it.
Alas, don't have that time.
It would be interesting, though.
After that much time, I'd want to write an article.
And from the time I see the PhD students invest in their's, we are talking weeks.
The bottom line is: many of the mechanisms he claims did not exist had existed before. Also: the #MiddleAges are not called the #DarkAges for nothing...