GaryM, you might be interested in this piece, which covers some of the same ground.
“All those erudite people and their studies, research and papers, lent a spurious legitimacy and authority to the whole thing and having laid that essential groundwork, facilitated what inevitably followed. They all got away with it too. Every last one of them.”
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/the-real-bastards/
Pointman