Thanks for the link. Let's hope that G & M get the last word on the quasistable black holes!

But they didn't touch at all Plaga's discussion in his section 5.

ETA: And they accuse Plaga of misquoting them. What they wrote:

“...at each point where we have encountered an uncertainty, we have replaced it by a conservative or “worst case” assumption.”
(my emphasis)

What Plaga wrote:
“...at each point where we encountered an uncertainty, we have replaced it by a conservative “worst case” assumption”.

This is a good example of an ad hominem attack, Van: point out a simple typesetter's error that changes the meaning of the sentence not a whit, and then accuse the author of misquotation, and thus attack the integrity of the author by leaving the reader with the impression that the author is intellectually dishonest. Plaga actually did them a favor by improving their style.