I don't think his job makes a difference to what he says do you? Einstein worked as a clerk while he developed the greatest scientific theories of the 20th Century.
Three points:
1. I don't give a rat's butt about Bermas or Avery. They are inconsequential. The many 100s of honorable engineers, scientists, military, investigators & (tho it makes me pucker to say it) even lawyers & politicians that these morons accused of mass murder, treason & fraud have continued to contribute vast amounts to US (& world) society.
While Bermas, Avery & Rowe have done, what? (Other than line their own pockets.)
2. Einstein went from brilliant but unrecognized postal clerk to brilliant and recognized genius PRECISELY BECAUSE he was right & his theories were verified by innumerable objective tests by innumerable other competent scientists. NOT because he was an unrecognized clerk.
3. There have been many, many thousands of unrecognized people who have put forth theories outside of their field of expertise. A tiny, tiny percent of them (Mendeleev, Watt, etc.) are known today. Because they were correct.
Millions of others went back to obscurity because they were completely off base.
From what I've seen, NOTHING that Bermas, Avery, Rowe have asserted has stood up to scrutiny. They have been uniformly, pathetically wrong at every step. (And insulting, to boot.)
I'll play the long odds on this one. For every whack job that turned into an Einstein, there have been 10,000 whack jobs that turned out to be whack jobs.
I didn't know Einstein. I've read a bunch of his work.
I don't know Bermas or Avery. I've read a bunch of their work.
Even in the most disconnected-from-reality imagination, neither Bermas nor Avery are Einsteins.
tom