Motivated reasoning made its masterpiece there—the guy does know his stuff, but he basically found one tiny nit and went “THIS IS CLEARLY ALL BOGUS, AS AN EXPERT I IMPLORE YOU ALL TO IGNORE EVERY WORD”. That was why I posted to Physics Exchange about it, to demonstrate to a friend that when he says “trust me, I’m an expert” you can’t trust him.
Motivated reasoning made its masterpiece there—the guy does know his stuff, but he basically found one tiny nit and went “THIS IS CLEARLY ALL BOGUS, AS AN EXPERT I IMPLORE YOU ALL TO IGNORE EVERY WORD”. That was why I posted to Physics Exchange about it, to demonstrate to a friend that when he says “trust me, I’m an expert” you can’t trust him.