Thanks for this info. It's always good for we Buddhists to be reminded that we also have skeletons in our closet. Some Western Buddhists, Sam Harris in particular, are far too smug about our alleged harmony with modern knowledge and values. However, it's a legitimate decision for Buddhists to ignore texts which our experience and intuitions tell us are wrong, because Buddhism does not believe in sacred texts. There is a Buddhist saying "don't confuse your finger with the moon". The text is the finger, but the truth is the thing that the text points to, and this truth cannot be expressed in words. Consequently, we have an obligation to think critically about the revered texts. We are told that the Truth believed is a lie, and that we must test all teachings "in the smithy of our experience". If we cannot experience the truth of a teaching, we must reject it. Many of us consider the writings of later Buddhist writers to be superior to the first Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, and so we rely more on those later teachers for insight. And when those teachers get something wrong, we have an obligation to call them out.