I have been working on this issue with Robert Sungenis since about 2003. I have some involvement in a movie project which is going to blow the lid off this. We have interviewed George Ellis, Max Tegmark, Lawrence Krauss, and may others.
I know what your initial reaction is, and I understand it. When I first came across this, I had a similar reaction. I urge all of you to keep an open mind on this. The banks are in waa-waa land, the govt. is too. Most of society is in waa-waa land. Do you think cosmology is any different? It is the underlying philosophical assumptions of all these organizations that are leading to the current chaos everywhere. It is the largely anti-Christian/anti-Western perspective that leads to all of this. Keep in mind that cosmology is 90-95% philosophy and 5-10% science (we asked most of the interviewees this question, and they pretty much all answered supporting this conjecture). Again, George Ellis, "What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models. A lot of cosmology tries to hide that." I would give pure science and engineering the position of being more rational than much of society, but cosmology is far from pure science.