Todd Compton has become best known for his massive new book on Joseph Smith's Polygamous marriages, and the analysis and details of the plural wives of Joseph Smith. It is interesting that his is not an anti-Mormon book. In fact he says so. But what interests me more is his analysis and discussion of how the Tanners use his own work, and in ways he never intended it to be used. This only strengthens my own resolve to write my online commentary on the Tanners work, because I am not merely picking on them because they might happen to be the strongest refutation of Mormonism in the land (their own view). It is because apparently, there are some who think the Tanners decimate Mormonism. But I am finding that they terribly misuse sources in order to find anything negative they can. I now find a very powerful ally in Todd Compton and his showing that his book does not say what the Tanners want it to say. They cut and paste and use things out of context, and it disturbs Compton, as well it might. Because they abuse his fine scholarship and research there are now some Mormons who consider Compton as an anti-Mormon, of all things, something I do not share about him. Here is his discussion, which I believe neatly dovetails with my own commentary here and corroborates many of the findings I have made concerning the Tanners methodology. It is simply wrong, and certainly not historical nor professional. Their methodology appears to me (as well as to Compton now) as a hatchet job intended for one and only one outcome, making Mormonism look bad, no matter what. In other words, the Tanners methods shows they apparently accept that the ends justifies the means.