This is not about motives. This is about the method of science. There should be scientific evidence to believe such claims as Solyent's, especially since it is

This is not about motives. This is about the method of science. There should be scientific evidence to believe such claims as Solyent's, especially since it is possible to do reliable experiments to test many of his claims. Also, more specifically: he is a single data point. And hardly an objective one.