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I suspect that he misinterprets, as it were, what an interpretation is, namely, a way of thinking that elucidates the underlying mathematical framework. He seems to think that different interpretations can make different predictions based on the same math:
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I would say that, more likely than not, his mental model of what an interpretation is is different from what physicists tend to mean. It does not help that he has an ax to grind, as the author of his pet "transactional" interpretation.
Reread this statement, which you quoted: "The problem encountered by the Copenhagen and Many-Worlds Interpretations is that the Afshar Experiment has identified a situation in which these popular interpretations of quantum mechanics are inconsistent with the quantum formalism itself."
The implication is that Copenhagen and Many-Worlds are not valid interpretations, since (he claims) they are inconsistent with the formalism. (I'm not sufficiently well-versed in QM to evaluate this claim, unfortunately.)