Mea culpa for missing that link; ('TMI' takes its toll on us all.)
Pity that this sane, bloody-well 'Balanced-enough' chronicle ..prolly won't be found/seen by the hacks who most need to be graded, F-for pissant-eFForts, via sheer mental laziness.

Elon may be no Saint.. but who amongst us can claim such either ('cept moi, of course.)
From what I've 'adsorbed' from other Elon-related material to date, it's clear that he IS fucking-clearly no anti-science Troglodyte nor guilty of the mob-babble examples described. Muricans are such LAZY-minded blowhards, quite too often. So glad I'm 99.44%-^above such mindsets (and humble too.)

Remembered from ~toddler-hood radio ads: slogans from Pleistocene Era:

Ivory Soap™ Ninety nine and 44 one-hundredths-percent pure; It FLOATS! (pic of a bar in visual ads ..er, floating.)
Yup We've Come a Long Way, Baby: why, Today.. ...