&gt; It also doesn&#x27;t help that Rossi has been convicted of fraud for purportedly inventing dubious devices in the past. In particular, he &quot;created&quot; a system for turning toxic waste into oil, but this turned out to be just dumping the waste into the environment.<p>I feel like if someone has done this once, anyone taking them seriously again, deserves to lose their shirt. What, he suddenly reformed and is now doing real science? In what universe does this happen?