Our experiences and surmises are remarkably similar: you think Dr. Bengtsson did what he did upon realizing he'd endangered his reputation and with it exposed himself to increased opposition from those who would now realize what he stands for; that he understood better how his free choice would impact his ability to gain the respectability of being published by respectable publishers; that he figured out the
grant opportunities gained by open alliance with the tax - free «educational charity» that has a surprising amount of money for
media campaigns and spectacle would not balance the
grants he'd lose from people who consider association with a transparent tax fraud
scheme a bad thing; and, ultimately that he had betrayed the trust of his valued colleagues by exposing them to such scandal.