Scam artists have been doing this for a long time. A lot of things are not verified simply because verifying then could show they are false.<p>One can equally ask a scam victim &quot;Wait, you sent money to Nigeria? How could you do it?&quot; or a cult member &quot;Why didn&#x27;t you get out sooner?&quot;. And the answer is that for the scam to work, the victim has to become a believe first, then they will resist revising their beliefs. They become a co-conspirator so to speak.<p>So the fusion guy convinced himself and his investors that 1MW works, neither one of them have any interest at this point in revealing that it doesn&#x27;t. They would want to sell it, bring others on board, and then slowly fade away.<p>Investors often don&#x27;t want to know the truth, because it would reveal that they&#x27;ve been played. If someone pays the money for D-Wave, they now have an inherent interest in not telling the world how it doesn&#x27;t work, because the world will laugh at them for spending all that money on it to beging with.