Yes, Jason Lowery is a crackpot. I tried reading a few paragraphs at some point, it all felt like SF wishful thinking. It's ok to speculate, but passing it off as the absolute truth, with arrogance, didn't fit well with me.

He's been misusing/abusing his MIT affiliation to try to gain some credibility to promote his master's thesis. The sad reality is that at the master's level (and sometimes even at the PhD level), a master's thesis does not carry the seal of approval of the peers. It's rare for anyone but the advisor to (cursively) read it. If the ideas are sound, he should be able to publish them in a few succint pages in a journal. Crackpots usually go for verbose long documents as they think it makes them sound smarter.

Also, instead of letting people read it for free, he was trying to make money from something that tax money paid for.

Well, take my opinion as the one from a well indoctrinated academic idiot~~

EDIT: Unrelated, but I think it'd be nice if mises.org adds a disclaimer when their articles have been edited with AI.