Some people just get too big for their britches. If you're going to commit scientific fraud, you need to do it in the edges where nobody really cares, nobody's going to try to replicate it, nobody's going to try to build on it, and nobody's going to try to get you to explain more details because they want to build on it. You want to be working in the dead-end cul-de-sacs.
You do not want to be going "I've got a room temperature superconductor" or "I've detected a dark matter particle" or "I've got a simple procedure for flipping matter to anti-matter" or "I've cured all cancers". People are going to want follow-up details and to reproduce it and to begin building on it and turning it into engineering.
You gotta keep your aspirations realistic. You need to be working off in the darkness somewhere, not trying to conquer the territory where the brightest lights are shining. Don't try to fraud your way to Nobel-prize level work.
You do not want to be going "I've got a room temperature superconductor" or "I've detected a dark matter particle" or "I've got a simple procedure for flipping matter to anti-matter" or "I've cured all cancers". People are going to want follow-up details and to reproduce it and to begin building on it and turning it into engineering.
You gotta keep your aspirations realistic. You need to be working off in the darkness somewhere, not trying to conquer the territory where the brightest lights are shining. Don't try to fraud your way to Nobel-prize level work.