I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.
But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.
You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.