Alas, it appears our party is over, and the end is in sight for all the fun we have been having. Wasn't the world much more interesting when we dressed the Count in a tux, suspected that Bram Stoker had died of syphilis, knew that Vlad really was a blood-drinking vampire, and secretly entertained the possibility that vampires really did exist. All that doesn't seem to matter to Miller. She points the accusing finger and demands that those of us who pretend to be scholars must put everything else aside and be true to our profession. She modestly suggests that, given the present state of knowledge, we discard the unfounded speculations and deadend hypotheses concerning Dracula, and that we base our future writings and discussions on what we presently know.
Scholars acting like scholars, now that's an interesting idea.
For those of us who lack any crusading spirit, we can at least cease to cooperate with the future spread of falsehoods. In the end, I think not. Dracula is as fascinating as it is important in the history of literature. Even with many of our misconceptions about it pushed aside, we can still enjoy our movies, worship at the shrine of Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz, and occasionally contribute to the next generation of expanding knowledge. We must agree that for every problem that Miller pronounced solved, a new one now stands in its place to entertain us.