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Physicists are often contemptuous of people who make bold claims that don't hold up - they're not an extremely polite bunch - so it doesn't pay to discount what Siegel says just because of his tone. Actual ad hominem arguments, on the other hand, often indicate a lack of good arguments.
Here's another criticism of Wiltshire's so-called "timescape cosmology":
https://medium.com/global-science-news/evaluating-the-extraordinary-claim-of-timescape-cosmology-superseding-the-standard-cosmological-513cd5ff6f4f
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