Playing devil's advocate in situations like this serve a useful purpose. Honoring our skeptical bones hopefully help keep our feet firmly planted on the ground, particularly when our wings would love to start flapping right now! ...to soar into the stratosphere is everyone's dream.
Nevertheless, and for the sake of argument, assuming this is a scam, it seems to me that there is a crucial item that hasn't been explored to any great length. What would Rossi and Focardi's exit strategy be? The lecture circuit? "Ha! Ha! We fooled you all?" How could they possibly make a penny (and expect to keep their "winnings") orchestrating a scam of this magnitude, especially when the cards started falling down. Granted, I bet there are some out there who might think pulling the wool over everyone's eyes for several weeks (or months) would be a dandy way to gain popularity, to be the life of the party. Not my cup of tea, no pun intended. IOW, most of the scam scenarios I've read so far only seem to concentrate on how to pull off the act. They don't seem to have much of a clue as to what is likely to happen after the curtain comes down - and there WILL be an encore of sorts to face. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
