While we are suppose to feel bad about those "poor" people who apparently had money to spend on this, we're really just annoyed someone's gotten ahead again.
Edit: at least I am. I am nowhere near any lawful alignment to feel sympathy.
Actually, I'm not sure that the fraud is conscious - at least, not on the inventor's part. He sounds like a typical victim of the Dunning-Kruger Effect, believing that expertise in one narrow field (electronics and electrical engineering) makes him equally expert in a vaguely related field (quantum physics). His partners, though..... Hmmmm. One of them - David Louis DeFebo - flogs something called Schweitzer Formula which is "a universal disinfectant which stops unhealthy germs in the body, but does not damage or kill the cells of the body." The other two who aren't his wife or daughter are typical New Age flake types. Guess which one of the three will disappear with the money once it turns out that the Quantum Energy Generator doesn't work?
(I confess I am kind of wondering WTH this goes next. Cynical bets are on production of prototype, investor falling through, and life going on as before, but unless there is something I am unaware of, that seems like a lot of very public risk for very minimal reward?)
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Date: 2013-09-15 04:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-09-15 05:50 pm (UTC)Fools and their money are soon parted
Date: 2013-09-15 04:37 am (UTC)Edit: at least I am. I am nowhere near any lawful alignment to feel sympathy.
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Date: 2013-09-15 10:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-09-15 11:47 am (UTC)His partners, though..... Hmmmm. One of them - David Louis DeFebo - flogs something called Schweitzer Formula which is "a universal disinfectant which stops unhealthy germs in the body, but does not damage or kill the cells of the body." The other two who aren't his wife or daughter are typical New Age flake types. Guess which one of the three will disappear with the money once it turns out that the Quantum Energy Generator doesn't work?
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Date: 2013-09-17 06:11 pm (UTC)Ugh. At least if the inventor is mistaken, he will find out soon enough? :s
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Date: 2013-09-15 12:33 pm (UTC)I filed one. Anyone else?
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Date: 2013-09-15 07:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-09-17 06:10 pm (UTC)(I confess I am kind of wondering WTH this goes next. Cynical bets are on production of prototype, investor falling through, and life going on as before, but unless there is something I am unaware of, that seems like a lot of very public risk for very minimal reward?)