It seems that the perversity of the universe does tend towards infinity after all.

kronicfeld: Was it Tom Cruise?

More to the point, is Scientology to blame?

Mr McCarthy is the head of an IT company that advises police forces across Europe on fighting fraud.

Either he is trying to leverage his expertice into new areas of revenue geneartion or he is wholly underqualified for his job. He is either being fooled (or foolng himself) or trying to fool others for profit.

What the article shows nicely and what many people mistakenly assume is that science somehow is expected to work like a religion or political ideology. Sure scientists have their pet theories and they can often be slow to accept new theories. But you won't get persecuted by the scientific establishment for holding unorthdox views on a subject as long as you go about it scientifically. If you publish your ideas in a peer reviwed journal instead of taking out adds in the newspaper people will respect you if not your views. If your results are reproducable you will convince a large group of scientist that you were right. If you somehow manage to prove long-held believes central to many scientific theories wrong than many fellow scientist will enthusiatically flock to your side instead of trying to scilence you as a heretic.

The idea behind building scientific theories is not to defend them from criticims, but to build them in such a way that they will withstand any attacks. Everybody exposing a weakness that requires part of the structure to be torn down will create an opportunity for many others to make a name for themselves in building the parts.

If you actually manage to build a working perpetummobile or free enrgy device or table-top coldfusion or found a way to cheaply turn lead into gold, the scientific community after critically exmining it and doing their best to find alternative explanations will hand you a noble prize and put you on a pedestal instead of sending hitmen after you.

Hmm, run a company based on helping people fight fraud, then make up your own fraud. I'll bet he offers help to anyone falling for it!

in other news.....no one cares

perpetual motion go's agianst the laws of gravity and phisics

Whatever happened to that guy with the "special water" powered motorcycle in NZ?

fien111:
perpetual motion go's agianst the laws of gravity and phisics

Don't forget the laws of spellin'.

this machine is a joke. It just keeps going faster and faster!

He is either being fooled (or foolng himself) or trying to fool others for profit.

Cold fussion, anyone?

Mythbusters are called to action.

"Inventor keeps his perpetual motion machine under a cloak of invisibility"

Spot check DC 40! That tricky bastard.

Someone find a cleric. They can purge invisbility at 5' per caster level!

I've been wonderring the smae thing for a while. I have the video on my desktop, but /I haven't heard anything else aobut it.

"Inventor keeps his perpetual motion machine under a cloak of invisibility"

WTF! He's got a perpetual motion machine AND a cloak of invisibility?

/His Santa brings him better stuff than mine ever did.

I just saw an article where a reporter did see it. I think it was on Boingboing a few days ago....

Isn't this now the forth link for this scam? Free publicity...

I'm not a member of the Spelling Reich, but what happened to half the commenters here? It's like a bitter English teacher organized a crap-a-thon just to prove some sort of strange point.

UltimaCS: I'm not a member of the Spelling Reich, but what happened to half the commenters here? It's like a bitter English teacher organized a crap-a-thon just to prove some sort of strange point.

i lol'd.(sp?)

The inventor is actually the baby who the Raelians cloned.

I keep my perpetual motion machine in my pants. YEAH BABY.