I remember a few years ago a buddy of mine had a mature tank and wanted to try his hand at growing Gonipora. He did all the research and had a decent setup to give it a shot. One day while continueing to gather more information on thier care he posted a question on Aqualink. Well he got slammed pretty hard and the flame throughers were out in full force. His arguement was that if a person did his research and tried thier best to provide the care they needed that thier was a good chance something could be found that would give folks a better chance to keep them alive, instead of no one trying and allowing the mortalities to continue.
I always felt that was good enough reasoning, so I kind of bailed him out of the thread.
I think Dave is taking the same kind of apprach and the same thought.
Mike