Actually, yes. The hypothesis that fits more of the total data set than any other is that Rossi has indeed made a breakthrough in LENR, and is also running a scam......but the people being scammed are his potential and actual competitors. Johnny B. and the rest of the skeptopaths will not have any other idea put forth than "Rossi is a crook, and everything he's ever done has been one scam or another".
The hypothesis that fits more of the total data set than any other is that Rossi has indeed made a breakthrough in LENR, and is also running a scamLOL! Wow, you're going down swinging!
That's a ridiculous theory. If he really had a breakthrough in LENR there would be no reason to run a scam company to try to profit off of it. That is a very paranoid way of thinking.
None of Rossi's dog & pony shows were sufficient to eliminate the possibility of fraud. Given that all of his business dealings are obviously fraudulent, the most reasonable theory is that the invention part is fraudulent as well.
But some people never learn.
"Rossi is a crook, and everything he's ever done has been one scam or another".Well, that is a true statement.
Petroldragon was a fraud. The Thermoelectric Convertor for the Army never worked, even though Rossi allegedly did some testing at the University of New Hampshire (for which there are no actual records) claiming that it did work.
He was a jewelry manufacturer in Italy in between Petroldragon and the Army, but even that got him in trouble for forging gold sales documents.
And there's the phony engineering degree from the diploma mill.
Yup, that pretty much covers it.