It wasn't that he coined the term, but that he recognized an important phenomenon and published a description of it before anyone else, which later came to info

It wasn't that he coined the term, but that he recognized an important phenomenon and published a description of it before anyone else, which later came to inform major decisions about the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Naming that phenomenon was just a byproduct of recognizing and writing about it, and I mention it only because it implies all of the above. And his vaxx beliefs aren't relevant to research he did prior to the COVID outbreak, but if you have a specific critique of that research I'd be interested to hear it.