I'm not qualified to comment on every point you made, but it's certainly true that his methodology was not very scientific. Some publications are quoted in the

I'm not qualified to comment on every point you made, but it's certainly true that his methodology was not very scientific. Some publications are quoted in the article as saying that they would have reviewed the paper later, and then they would have rejected it. As he wasn't prepared to pay the publication fee, he had no way of testing this.