" AP ' as a failed science project

[professor rat]

Now its obvious Jim Bell has become a fringe crank that associates with known criminal-garbage its time to lay his ' epoch shattering ' system to rest.

There are parts of it that are original and even good - unfortunately the parts that are good are not original and the original parts are not good - Sigmund Freud?  Really!?

For those interested in drilling down on this Quack,  Imre Lakatos was a theorist of failed science projects

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lakatos/

Might be worth a look.