Many of his contemporaries and subsequent biographers thought otherwise. As such, his career has been studied extensively by biographers and documentarians. Bundy had different recollections of Tacoma when he spoke to his biographers. William's modern biographers disagree on the veracity of these allegations. Several biographers and observers characterized Gaddafi as a populist. She and her earliest biographers attributed her illness and death to mercury poisoning. That theory is repudiated by Smith's preeminent modern biographers. However, the "trade only" notion is contradicted by Bast and other Dean biographers. Gagarin's biographers Doran and Bizony say that neither Gagarin nor Titov slept that night. Many modern biographers disagree with these ideas. Most modern biographers of Herod dismiss the story as an invention. None of James's biographers accepted them as plausible. Ramanujan's first Indian biographers describe him as a rigorously orthodox Hindu. Some biographers of James argue that the relationships were not sexual. Subsequent biographers supported the myth and embellished it.