I'd even be skeptical if a high profile researcher came up with it. Inventing a better heat resistant substance is one thing - rewriting the laws of physics is another. The fact that this came from a character with little formal scientific pedigree, the fact that there is no peer-reviewed documentation of how it works, that there is no demonstration of it working and that he flat-out refuses to elaborate on it leads me to conclude that he is a phony. Regardless, he doesn't need to show all of the inner workings to give a demonstration. If he's really being funded and silenced by foreign governments - why did he give a exclusive to a reporter in the first place? It doesn't make sense, and it's a bit silly really.