Unfortunately, I agree with you on your views.
Not thoroughly, but cautiously.
He definitely has put himself out on a limb with zero point energy.
That is not just a needle in a hastack, but at this early on in a development of disclosure, its the needle in a hay feild.
The integrity of this man to go as far as he did, is nothing short of incredible.
But I guess if your gonna go for it,...go for it.
A key issue to his dilemma and ours is TIME.
We are running critically short of reaching a point of no return.
Social etiquite is becoming less and less of an asset.
Even though, if the principle in all of this is in fact that we have indeed come in contact with an advanced technological race, then this technology indeed exists.
It may have become an issue of "Now or Never".
An issue I am not quite clear upon is the "Star Wars" system we are supposedly setting up in space. This would be one of the more accessible areas the ET's would be able to shut down themselves before it is even reached near completion.