I had a villager who claimed he had discovered the medicine for AIDS. He was a liar who hadn't paid his loans to several others, so locals dismissed him. His son was somewhere in jail (I think in Canada) for some kind of fraud charges, (of course he wouldn't say it,  but his friends figured that out). About six months later, he emerged in KTM's national media, with the same declaration. The skeptic locals suddenly were stunned--did he really do it? "If Kathmandu's media believes it, who are we to disbelieve him?" this was what they thought.

What the villagers didn't know was the deep corruption and ignorance that runs through the KTM media. Whether in carrying the news of a fake billionaire or fake scientists, they don't even check the claims, and run the news. The man who claimed to have discovered AIDS medicine was later exposed to be a quack, but he made some quick bucks and more than anything else, he didn't have to go to jail. Needless to say, the journalists who propagated the false claims didn't have to go to jail either.