(For people that don't know it, conspiracy does not necessarily imply tinfoil, aliens or illuminati -- as an example, covert action to harm others for own benefit will do).
Dvorak, who had money to gain for his alternative keyboard, falsified research and oversold the improvements, to promote his work over Qwerty.
(I once worked with a contract programmer, who had been somewhat famous in his own way in the past. Aged mid 40s I guess, so he'd been doing this for 25 years or whatever. Anyway, due to his line of work, and his fame, I'm figuring he'd met a lot of people over this period. And apparently I was the very first person he'd ever met to use the Dvorak layout.)
"Storm in a teacup"? LOL, as they say. Doesn't even begin to describe it...
Though, one man's teacup could be another man's sea. I mean, we discus like Vim vs Emacs, or CL vs Clojure all the time, things that are also totally peripheral and unimportant in the grand scheme of things.