The chief criticism of Williams's account is that it is entirely hearsay evidence. Williams is the sole source for a story he considered to be very important in 1920, yet he made no effort to share it before the destruction of his evidence twenty years later, and no effort to publish it until the 1950s. The motivations of the story's scientists make no sense except to conform to their villanous role in what Larry Eskridge characterizes as a "melodrama." The TalkOrigins Archive suggests that the depiction of unbelievers, indicates that the entire story was manufactured as religious propaganda.