It's not bizarre at all. The math community has unfortunately been down this road many times before. When an 80-year-old announces a 7 page proof of a famous problem, the smart money is on the proof being wrong. As the comments elsewhere on this story indicate, this heuristic turned out to be correct. The only new twist is that we have two 80-year-olds this time, not one.
To be clear, I don't like this state of affairs. As suggested above, the best course of action seems to be to ignore the posting.
>It's so inappropriate that in the field that's actually trained for this, they're disallowed by compact, even with extensive evidence.
The field trained for this is not refraining from this because it's hard to get right, but because it undermines the privacy promise they give their clients! not an argument applicable to people who do not have that professional reputation to uphold.
Of course you should speculate about mental health of people when it's relevant to the topic - it's a factor heavily shaping many people's behaviour!
