I'm dead glad you typed all that up Fitz,
I was gonna, but I'm pleased I didn't now. Nice one.
In a way, I reckon that list may have contributed to most academics are scared off the idea of trying to interpret RA for fear of ridicule. Which is odd, because the way I'd been told, academics like nowt better than a nice nebulous subject upon which one can theorise endlessly, publish prolifically, and never really have much chance of ever being proven wrong.