> Do you think these people just turned their careers and image to shambles because they just wanted some sensationalism or do you give people any benefit of th

> Do you think these people just turned their careers and image to shambles because they just wanted some sensationalism or do you give people any benefit of the doubt? They can also very earnestly believe what they do and simply be wrong. You're setting up a false dichotomy where someone must either be a deceptive charlatan or else be correct. Third possibility is deeply held and incorrect belief. Stockton Rush believed very earnestly in his submersible, he wasn't a simple charlatan, he really had earnest beliefs about it and he literally bet his life on it. He is also dead now because physics decided to show him that he was just wrong. There's no reason to doubt that Lee Sukbae and Kim Ji-Hoon thought they really had a room temperature superconductor, but they were wrong.