The analysis is wrong because the underlying assumption is wrong. People do not follow pundits or amateurs because of perceived accuracy. They follow because of entertainment value. Confident, blowhard posts are far more entertaining than carefully worded, accurate ones.
Sweet and Low candies are the shiznit! In many ways, actually. They taste good. Are smooth on the tongue and have no calories. They also so not satisfy any cravings at the biological level, so are ultimately unsatisfying. That they are a laxative is conveniently left off of the package.
I like the author's dedication to his subject. If someone is going to pay $500 for coffee that has come out of a money's butt, he should be getting the real deal.
My observations concur with PlasmaGryphon. In most cases the preferred method of manually charging devices is with a hand-cranked, clockwork mechanism. Hand-cranked generators without clockwork come in second, but most people like small bursts of hard work rather than easier but tedious work.
A stride is the distance between paw prints of the same foot, so you would only have to look six feet or so for the next print. On the other hand, tracking a cheetah would generally be unadvisable.
Its beauty lies is how it describes how most good investigation relies on what is seen rather than what is known.
Trevor Baylis has worked on both. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Baylis#Invention