IcebergSaw your posts whizzing through and it caught my attention as currently looking into posters who persist in bad mouthing listed companies. I'm not in anyway involved in NFG, never owned it but the story interests me. There appears to be contradiction, you write a damning report on a company that you've shorted. Obviously any report published (good or bad) where the authors have no current interest in the underlying stock would be better received and taken at face value.
In case you haven't read this, I'll leave it with you to discuss.
https://www.hec.edu/en/arnaud-vagner-taking-down-fraudulent-firms-keep-green-business-honest#:~:text=Founder%20and%20director%20of%20the,HEC%20alumni%20Arnaud%20Vagner%20(H.