Take responsibility for your own decisions. If you disregarded their lies, if you excused their obvious manipulations, it's a failure of judgement on your part as well as mine.

In retrospect, all the clues were there, and they were there in real time, too. When did what they were doing ever make sense? You turned a blind eye to their lack of revenues, bloated salaries, numerous reverse splits, absence of independent product reviews, foolish marketing decisions, etc., in the service of being a true believer. I was same, it turns out hope is not an effective investment strategy.

The big bad wolf didn't blow our house down on his own, we enabled it.