If they want to make money by getting "the unwashed laity" to buy their books, why should I stop them? I simply don't buy them myself. If other people want to get told comforting nonsense, that's their problem. Caveat lector.

> Or perhaps with the appropriate faculty committees at their institutions?

Which would be pointless and absurd, since, as I have already said, the claims in question are not being made in textbooks and peer-reviewed papers.

I suspect you are trolling.

You can win an internet argument anywhere, but if that's all you want to achieve here, then maybe stop trying to debate physics.