Follow the money, the duped willingly send money to these Charlatans. Some of them have the charisma to talk seriously experienced tech investors out of their money. Seen it done. Often they escape town just ahead of the civil lawyers and local prosecutor.
Evil, is well, Evil.
Same sort of bunch who are doing the vaccine frauds. I really, really don't feel like risking Polio or TB so a housewife can feel good about not risking her child with vaccination. Which is the results of three fraudulent studies done on extremely small sample groups led by one famous physician. When redone on a large group, no correlation could be found between vaccines and risk of childhood autism. But a few famous actors and wealthy people picked up on this as an excuse to explain what they observed. Suddenly we have new laws on the books in the US allowing the refusal of mandatory preventative medicine on grounds other then known allergy or religion. Hey, it makes those Moms feel GOOOOOD! However the man hours spent combating this would have been better spent actually doing beneficial Autism research.
Herd immunity works. If we have to sacrifice say 1 in 250,000 people to complications, that is a sad but acceptable risk.
I say that being the son of man who suffered lifelong symptoms from Malaria.
The good news is I just served as a judge for the regional science fair. The Brilliant Seventh Grader who tried to build multiple versions of a perpetual motion machine with DC motors and magnets came to the conclusion he could never overcome friction losses. On his own, with decent statistics and no adult help. We made very sure he will have a mentor for the next few years. With his self taught mechanical construction and measurement skills, I have no doubt I was talking to a future engineer.
Now if we could just address the fraud perpetuated by certain folks that says Arduino PWM will solve ALL analog electrical engineering problems, I'd be happy...
(Sarcasm)
Steve