Comment I can see a business plan. (Score 1) 21
Room temperature superconductors could be a trillion dollar industry. After getting the university to state their disavowal of his "research" on record, he goes out and gets venture capital. If (as suspected) it fails, he will have enough salted away to live off for decades. In the unlikely event that it succeeds, the university won't be able to claim that it owns the research it disavowed.
6) ???
7) PROFIT!