Talented con man
 

This is some of the best con work of all time, this guy should have received the Nobel Prize for that talent alone.



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It's a pity politics is off limits. The guy I have in mind deserves a page 1, 2nd post thread mention.

Instead, I'll tip-toe down the border and leave this genius-who-wasn't-so-genius snakeoil salesman right here...father of the gov't/market put option (ironically, a "derivative") named after him. So famous for saying absolutely nothing in both speeches and answers to vital, important questions his speaking style also garnered it's own nickname. Belief in this man, and the infallibility of his institution, wrecked the finances of the world's wealthiest nation, perhaps permanently. And to this very day his successors stridently oppose opening the accounting books for transparency's sake to the public which they vociferously claim to serve.

I don't understand, how was a patent issued for a perpetual motion machine which violates at least 2 fundamental laws of physics?

My understanding is that US patents do not attempt to verify if something works, only that it is properly represented in unique patent drawings and the patent application process is complete. When you think about it, this makes sense because how is the US Patent Office going to run all the laboratories necessary to test anything? At best they would have to take it at face value and of course the world is full of con artists, so there is no way for them to base an opinion.

Actually, there is a large group of whackos in the UFO community who claim the Laws of Thermodynamics are incomplete and should include an "over-unity" state of input-output for a system, more or less a perpetual motion machine which of course does not exist. Their idea is over-unity machines offer an anti-gravity feature, and of course the aliens we do not see anywhere know how this works and have the machines we can't build but won't share them because it might cure fossil fuel dependency or world hunger. Lately I have been going through some of their far out ideas and all I see is con artists and nut jobs. It's more of a study in psychology than science.