It's probably important not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Just because someone says one thing you don't agree with, it doesn't mean that everything they say is wrong and not worth listening to.
Due to the brakes put on things by the WHI, this is a new field where practitioners often need to think outside the box whilst best protocols are determined.
Not sure how we got to this from the bone protection thing, since those other studies are by a wide range of other practitioners from all over the world.
And just because one person needs high estrogen, doesn't mean that it isn't best practice to start low and titrate upwards only if needed - so that those who do best on low doses are not accidentally put on high doses to start with and then only moved upwards...