I get your point, but consider this: I can not speak for OP but I have the same background as OP and I had the same reaction, even if I would try to phrase it m

I get your point, but consider this: I can not speak for OP but I have the same background as OP and I had the same reaction, even if I would try to phrase it more mellowly. I receive "crackpot" papers to my email multiple times a year. I generally try to engage with these "lone geniuses", because everyone deserves respect and not everyone has been lucky enough to be introduced to Physics in a structured way that would let them self-correct if they are making a *silly* mistake. I try very hard to not be patronizing when pointing out mistakes. I actually read the papers and try to do the best possible interpretation of crackpoty statements. I point to actual research question that are closest to the nonsensical metaphors used by the authors. I suggest reading materials. But in the vast majority of cases these authors do not care about doing the actual work to correct glaring mistakes, they just assume everyone else is wrong. So, it is quite reasonable to use the signals that OP detected in order to say that the paper is nonsense. That signal has been 100% correct for me for the last 9ish years, and I did spend the time to check exactly because I dislike the elitism of using this signal.