All you need to do is look in the history book and realize that he was one of the few pepople working in that field. A more concrete thing was his text-to-speech synthesis.

Anyway. I see no point in defending Ray or any of his ideas. Just saying that the man isn't stupid and have done quite a few inventions.

To brush him of, as much as I disagree with some of his points, simply because he makes outragous claims seems a tad self-defeating.