My point was that the one thing you can take issue with is very likely "fair use".

I also believe that if the author has a legitimate claim it doesn't take 30 paragraphs to make a case.

Did you read it through? It took me a few reads to figure out the specifics of what he was talking about.

I'm guessing that the view by people here is that the NYTimes took an the Article and published it standalone, by itself, as they would one of their owns, without attribution.

That wasn't the case.

The NYT wrote an article, referenced the one in the PDF, and provided a copy of the PDF (of an old black/white scan) as context/background.