Maybe he was such a good popularizer (before his fall from grace) that a lot of the anecdotes seem acceptable to the point of obviousness when you read them. Or maybe things have been rearranged and reworked to such an extent that it any messy detail going against his thesis has been eliminated, it's hard to tell. I can't remember where and when this book had been recommended to me, a couple of years back, but I think it must have been prior to all the ruckus. It's a curiosity now, with a few interesting passages here and there.