Why are some people in the Japanese self learning community so down on Heisig?

to think about it, he even wrote a book about hanzi with the same method, and I don't think he speaks chinese.

I find rtk2 even more useful than rtk1 :p

about him not speaking japanese, even if this is true, I think you need to put evidence on your article with references.
but now I'm seeing you wrote an article about it where you explain the baseball thing. so it's ok