Implicitly, he urged them to converse with the fishermen, the builders, the soldiers, the doctors, the nurses, the shipwrights and the firemen to glean practical understanding from these practical people, who had to be willing and able to carry out the ultimate tests on their theories to provide demonstably working solutions in order to fulfill their typical working roles. One gets the impression from his work that some of them appeared reluctant to venture outside the academy at all out into the 'real world': let alone to mix with ordinary people. Consequently, some of them came in for some harsh criticism on occasion.

Equally, many established experts, often highly educated people and indeed experts regarding the theoretical aspects of their disciplines, but whom he considered scandalously remiss when they complacently failed to complement such theoretical understanding with practical knowledge as a way to test their theories empirically. He gleefully highlighted all the many lapses of integrity that he found. Among his targets were those who tended to emphasise media-image-managment, the accumulation of personal wealth and career progression over both personal integrity and respect for other people's contributions. He was ever alert to plain-wrong, biased, distorted or sloppy reports and hidden agendas wickedly delighting (the more so as a self-educated man) in criticising and exposing assertions that did not fit the evidence.

He was fanatical about making his works as accurate as he possibly could. Alexander McKee was no 'yes-man', he dared to criticise many military, political, economic, media and academic icons and he always kept an open mind.

Wreck of the Medusa by Alexander McKee