The fact that it is controversial among non-rationalists does not mean that it would be similarly controversial among (strong) rationalists.
This is probably not worth their time and too expensive to test, but concretely, I predict: if Duncan Sabien, gwern, Zvi (or other people in this general reference class, or people who did well on the Amanda Knox test for the right reasons, etc.) each spent some hours looking into this, I suspect they would reach mostly the same conclusions for mostly the same reasons independently.
The fact that it is controversial among non-rationalists does not mean that it would be similarly controversial among (strong) rationalists.
This is probably not worth their time and too expensive to test, but concretely, I predict: if Duncan Sabien, gwern, Zvi (or other people in this general reference class, or people who did well on the Amanda Knox test for the right reasons, etc.) each spent some hours looking into this, I suspect they would reach mostly the same conclusions for mostly the same reasons independently.