There is almost no reason to give him the benefit of the doubt. You could watch tv instead or go for a walk than listen to him and you&#x27;d spend your time better.<p>Who he is matters and his past matters as well. I (some no name from the Internet) can&#x27;t walk in to a public University and say, I want to be a physics professor. Sure, there is a 0.000001% I maybe be qualified and be a great professor. But my background doesn&#x27;t warrant them even listning to me talk about it. They&#x27;d have as good a chance finding a professor by picking randomly from a phone book. Same thing here with this guy.<p>&gt; but major scientific advances only occur 0.01% ...so maybe humanity would benefit more if we loosened up a bit<p>Yeah sure. We can loosen up a bit and maybe give NASA or some college professors random grants to go study this in more detail. As far as Rossi, we&#x27;d probably have a better chance discovering cold fusion just by taking a walk and stumbling on it. So no, in his case, based on what I&#x27;ve seen, it is not worth loosing up.