I recommend that you watch the National Geographic American Genius series of documentaries. It is a fascinating watch filled with brilliant inventors of the past. Much intrigue, deception, court battles, triumph, and failure. And these things seemed to consistently accompany the narrative of about every world-changing technology. It is due human frailties: greed, power, fear, dishonesty, and the like. The Rossi / IH affair is in no way unique, and is actually about what I would expect if the underlying technology was real.
Dang, I was afraid you would come up with something like that! So now, I have to not only read the rest of the case documents, now I have to watch a series of documentaries that will make Rossi appear the norm?
They will be coming to take me away aha, oho, ahee, to the funny farm, where I belong, they are coming to take me away.....