“exact opposite of debilitating impostor syndrome” is a nice phrase. But I don’t think that we should “take some of his claims with a grain of salt”. That impl

“exact opposite of debilitating impostor syndrome” is a nice phrase. But I don’t think that we should “take some of his claims with a grain of salt”. That implies reserving credit, which is appropriate if he is making claims about facts. In fact we should entirely discount his claims about how the universe works or the efficacy of his approach to physics until he can demonstrate that we should pay attention. The burden is entirely up to him, and the only yardstick is predictive power, of which his theories have zero.