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Surely the skepticism should be directed toward the question of whether their recipe actually does save the world, rather than against their motivation. I don't think that an analysis of motivations for something like this even begins to pay any rent.
For me, this is a standard technique. Whenever someone tells me how altruistic they are or have been, I try and figure out which replicators are likely to be involved in the display. It often makes a difference whether someone's brain has been hijacked by memes - whether they are signalling their status to prospective business partners, their wealth to prospective mates - or whatever.
For example, if they are attempting to infect me with the same memes that have hijacked their own brain, my memetic immune system is activated - whereas if they are trying to convince people what a fine individual they are, my reaction is different.