I have been following this in English news. It is terribly sad.

The University of Cambridge is largely to blame for letting this troubled person dig himself in so deep.

His astounding claims were astonishing and easily falsifiable. Journalists had no such trouble.

They raised him up then when he got too hot cast him down.

He was a fantasist, he deserves some blame, but it was Cambridge with the power, and irresponsible hubris

RIP