I honestly think the Bitcoin casual community has plenty of experts...I'ts weird but I never saw another Altcoin come under this level of suspicion, scrutiny and generally have its innovations claims simply dismissed especially after they post the code, white paper and and have a working beta.
When did NEM, NXT, etc get pulled apart by MIT?
You asked why no-one's talking of Vanillacoin's technology, I'm answering that question. Did take a quick look for anything on NXT, turns out it's all articles about Lego! What's NEM claiming it's fixed?