Wasn't the writing on the wall back a few years prior, when Bordynuik admitted to being a thieving con man in his OSC settlement? Even those who didn't believe the mountain of evidence the SEC made public prior to that one should have taken notice.
I mean, once he admitted to being a penny stock fraudster who used his unwitting children and mother as accomplices, what was the likelihood that he also a super genius who managed to revolutionize the pyrolysis industry?