I remember another jackass from the 1990s who made outrageous video compression claims. He would give demos of his super-secret technology showing wonderfully h

I remember another jackass from the 1990s who made outrageous video compression claims. He would give demos of his super-secret technology showing wonderfully high def video... Turns out he was running a coax cable underground to the table on which the monitor sat. Scientists are often good at determining what flaws of logic are causing anomalous results, or teasing out subtle unknown processes. However, they do poorly at debunking conmen because conmen are quite literally trying to game all the tools that scientists use. Unless they slept in the lab in sleeping bags, who is to say that there wasn't someone coming in the middle of the night to give it a little boost? All we have now is one crank from some backwater university in Russia who claims to have reproduced the effect.