[jmyc]

> The fact that he was reading his entire presentation verbatim should have tipped everybody off in the first minute or so

His presentation is utter nonsense, but whether he reads verbatim has nothing to do with it. Someone presenting valid results could just be a poor public speaker and/or nervous.

[marshray]

I read from notes when I present simply because I don't present the same material enough times to memorize it, otherwise I'm sure to forget something. A lot of presenters take another approach and put so many words on their slides and that they basically end up reading from them.