In what I did see, there was a rigged scoring system, some publicity blurbs revealing little understanding of probability, and claims of past success that were not, in fact, successes. In addition, I did look over Whiteside's thesis, and it did not look promising.

The last research published as an abstract by Lowell Whiteside claimed modulation of the rate of occurrence of foreshocks by normal modes to identify impending mainshocks, a far-fetched idea that turned out to be very optimistic misinterpretation of marginal data.

"you just don't care for them because you don't know what they can or can't do". Just the reverse, I doubt their prediction scheme because the lengthy record they've left of prior attempts goes nowhere positive.

I'm reading stuff here partly because there is always a chance of new information showing up, and tides ARE likely linked to rates of earthquake occurrence, but one has to separate the wheat from the chaff.