I don’t think pounding the professor while in bad health is in good form, however, I can say, as someone who has had stress and anxiety issues, that ‘the truth can set you free’.
If a person is hiding something, even if its small details, that puts pressure/stress on that person that leads to some very bad mental/physical states, so perhaps the answer is not for us to lay off the professor and cap, perhaps the answer is for the professor and cap to reveal the truth, and stop trying to use semantics to skirt around issues.
This whole mess is just too reminiscent of the last 8 years under Bush’s government.