Totally. Prima facie bullshit. Problem is that the "I F@#$king Love Science" crowd doesn't actually know how anything about science or math, so they'll buy pretty much anything backed up by even low-quality technobabble.

I hope you have evidence of that. I've never seen it. However, I would say the "I love science" group necessarily has a better grip on it than the vaccine-refusing, conspiracy-soaked science-rejecters--on-principal.

I'm curious as to which side of the bridge you stand on, and your science/mathematics background

You're not wrong but polarizing everything into two culture war "sides" isn't exactly scientific either.

- water is heavy

- pumped water gets used and flows to the oceans, far away

- we have pumped a lot of water (look up how much some places have subsided due to groundwater depletion).

- the earth's rotation is something we've worked out how to measure very, very precisely

It sounds completely plausible to me.