I don't care about the DMP, maybe some typo or anything.
Farouk El-Baz is really existing. He trained the CMPs for the lunar observations from lunar orbit. He must be a great guy and surely no believer of such crap. In ST:TNG, they even had a shuttle named after him.

His webpages are at http://www.bu.edu/remotesensing/Facu...az/FEBbio.html

Harald