[jamespitts]

Perhaps a better word is specialization.

Most of us are armchair astrophysicists at best and we should not be so spontaneously dismissive. If there is something in all of this, we'll hear about it soon enough from the scientific community. In the meantime we should be conservative in how we depict the scientists and publications involved.

[scrumper]

That is well said. One might equally accuse Leonard Susskind of a bias towards string theory. Chandra Wickramasinghe isn't himself a crank, and that's what gives me hopes for this research.