I have a book, "Probability 1", by Amir D. Aczel, a statistician. I think his statistics are OK, but his Biochemistry really sucks.
It's published by Harcourt Brace. Should I throw out all my HB books? Crap! These problems arise when someone writes about stuff they really don't know much about.
This screed of this thread can be safely flushed.
People rely on the judgment of publishers to filter through the enormous volume of would be authors and select those whose writing is credible. An academic publishers' reputation is their entire life. If they're publishing stuff that "sucks", then yes, you should seriously question how much faith you put in the authority of the other stuff they publish if it's in an area you're not as much of a towering luminary, like the application of the laws of thermodynamics to biochemistry.
These problems arise when someone writes about stuff they really don't know much about.
Anyone can take something they disagree with and claim the author doesn't know much about it. Darwin wrote about entire fields of science he didn't know much about, by your criteria. The Dover judge wrote 130 pages about stuff he didn't know much about. I gather you don't have problems with those?
For all I know, you're writing here about stuff you don't know much about. One of the entire purposes of academic publishing houses is to gain the credibility of their peers so that when someone writes something with their name on it, it counts more than some post on FR.