Gee, I don't know, they've gone very public, are paying for the studies, which I assume means opening up all materials and processes to the jury, and aren't asking for any money.
If they fail, it will be most public and will probably ruin their existing business, personal reputaions and the jobs of their current employees.
Seems to me that they've at least earned the benefit of the doubt until the verdict is in.
The method of very public claims prior to verification make me doubt this very much. I suspect, with nothing to back it up but my own suspicions and basic knowledge of physics, that all investment inquiries are not turned down. That is only a image to put forth while bigger private investment is being accepted.
They have earned an escort out of the office to the door.
This is exactly the kind of sham the ESP hucksters use: accept challenges, or invite challenges, from the scientific community with much public fanfare, then never hold the tests. I would bet a goodly sum that this "validation process" will never take place, due ostensibly to "disagreements about the experimental design," "unreasonable demands from the scientists," "refusal to conduct the test fairly," etc. etc. This will never be reported upon of course, and the bids for private financing will come as surely as the rain follows the thunder and lightning.