Short the individual researchers? Research projects? Short private funding?
Scams like EmDrive (but there are countless others – "save the planet with X") may be amusing, as long as it's on someone else's dime. Live and let live.
But the minute they manage to convince enough people, whether by virtue or shady marketing, it becomes a political problem. And then it's your problem too, through taxation and "too big to fail", no matter your position. Shorting on the stock market gets you only so far, and only for entities that actually exist on the stock market.
Short the individual researchers? Research projects? Short private funding?
Scams like EmDrive (but there are countless others – "save the planet with X") may be amusing, as long as it's on someone else's dime. Live and let live.
But the minute they manage to convince enough people, whether by virtue or shady marketing, it becomes a political problem. And then it's your problem too, through taxation and "too big to fail", no matter your position. Shorting on the stock market gets you only so far, and only for entities that actually exist on the stock market.