He thinks it's a load of baloney. I, on the other hand, have spotted holes in his arguments you could pilot the Starship Enterprise through. A major one is the absolute conviction that you can't build a simple crew vehicle for less than $12 billion. Using a bloated military program and a massive aerospace corporation as examples doesn't really make the point very well.

Now, if Easterbrook wants to make the case that NASA as an agency is functionally incapable of doing a job for less than tens of billions of dollars, you might have a point. That doesn't mean someone else couldn't do it.