AE,
This clown is no more an engineer than I am the pope. And I've closed down WAY too many bars to get elected...
This is some punk kid who "knows in his bones" that he's right, and this misplaced certainty justifies to him pulling a hoax. For a "higher purpose", of course.
And that's the GENEROUS interpretation.
The other one is simply somebody selling DVDs & black tee shirts.
I've run across about 20 of these posers over the last 2+ years. They claim to be engineers, "world experts", etc. etc. etc.
We had one of them here, posting under the name Bob the Analyst and Professor SmartPants for awhile. You can still look up their posts here. You'll find a lot of similarities. When I first ran across him, he was bragging that he was "one of the top 100 or 50 FEA experts in the world". And saying things that were absurd.
As soon as an engineer gets arguing with these bozos, they scatter like cockroaches. Only to come out again, as soon as the coast looks clear...
AE: where is he posting?
Tom