I don't blame people for repeating the things that they've been told via the credibility that's so baked into society, e.g. work from computer science faculty, from a university campus. It does enrage me that these fields have not cared to have a higher bar of rigor here -- but I don't blame the READERS of this work. Not to be dramatic but we are living in societies with soul-shattering heritages of violence against human potential trying to find a reasonable path through its devastation