I have not been participating in the general post-motegi rossi bashing (not much anyway
) but I think double standards regarding valentino's shoulder injury are one thing they have got you guys on.
Even leaving aside the 2009 lactose intolerance thing, I see very close parallels between stoner's scaphoid problem at the end of 2008 and rossi's current shoulder problem. Both are not obvious to the naked eye, both eventually required/ will require surgery, and both varied in their effects at different circuits/races. I don't find anything inconsistent in the latter; different circuits are going to stress things differently, on circuits where the bike or the set-up of the bike is better there is likely to be less strain on the injuries, and if a rider is doing well enough to battle close to the front adrenaline can be an effective analgesic and a rider is more likely to want to put up with pain anyway.
So I don't think rossi is faking his shoulder at all, but neither was stoner faking the scaphoid in 2008. I don't necessarily agree with applying the same flawed arguments to rossi now though.