> So yeah. Credentials do matter, and it matters that this person is not willing to say this out loud, in public, without using a pseudonym.

The problem is that we've come so far that him not saying this out loud is not necessarily hinting to him being a charlatan. Plausibly, the cost/benefit analysis by that individum might not make it worth speaking the truth given how heated up the matter is rn. If this sentiment propagates to other topics I fear that larger (and important) parts of the world might drift towards soviet era incompetence