Seems like White should get a little more credit; he's going well outside established science, and accepting a much higher risk of failure than most are comfortable with. Seems like he's throwing ideas at the wall in the hopes that maybe something sticks. More of us should do that, or at least, support those of us willing to see if something did stick.

The tone of this paper seemed less like an academic assertion of an effect, and more like "hey, found something cool, someone should look into this, I gotta get back to what I was doing."

I'm also not going to blame the guy for being interested in space-age propulsion systems.