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by opportune 1146 days ago
The author is basically a crank, it looks like they held some teaching positions in an unrelated subject at various universities yielding the “professor” title, and originally studied/published actual research in cosmology decades back.

Might as well be skeptical of the math community because of circle squarers

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> The author is basically a crank

Really not sure why do you say this. Is it something personal against him? Are you against people exploring weird interdisciplinary topics?

He has tons of publications [1], including co-authorship with people like this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Koonin

Koonin is certainly not a crank, and is a rather well-known interdisciplinary researcher at the intersection of biology and physics.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=nEEFLp0AAAAJ...