(1.März 1998) In 1996, Russian émigré scientist Eugene Podkletnov was about to publish a peer-reviewed article in the respected British Journal of Physics-D – proving, he claimed, that gravity could be negated.

Then a London newspaper publicized his conclusions, and the skeptics had a field day. Everyone knew you couldn‘t mess with the law of gravity – Einstein himself had said so.

Podkletnov withdrew the article.
His university evicted him.
He retreated from the public eye.