Accusations? There's nothing to be taken on faith in the post. All facts are backed up by proof. There's nothing to "trust". Just stuff to agree/disagree with.

Like many others, I formed a completely false impression from Adria's tweet, photo and blog post about who had made the offensive remarks. I thought it was the smiling gentleman looking straight into the lens of her camera (https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/313417655879102464/...).

That turns out not to be the case (they guy who was fired clarified this on HN yesterday). I'm betting that at least some of Adria's ~9k Twitter followers still think that Beard Guy is the one at fault here, and she's made no effort to correct this impression, even though it's probably damaged his reputation somewhat.

So I don't find her version of events particularly trustworthy either.