Kevin O'Malley <kevmol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Penon report?!? >> > ***ALL of it. The Penon report, the supposed heat exchanger, all of it. > If the Penon report is as fraudulent as you make it out to be, then > Rossi would be up on charges for that. > Nope. The legal system does not sue scientists for publishing fraudulent or idiotic reports. One reason is that no one can tell fools and frauds apart. When I first saw Penon's data I though Penon and Rossi were fools, and I could see they were copying data from one day to the next, which is borderline fraud, but I never imagined they were engaged in wholesale fraud. The full report plus the report from Murray are proof of that. If the legal system were to arrest scientists for stupid mistakes and bad reports, most scientists would be in jail. As Bohr said, an expert is someone who has made every possible mistake. The police also do not investigate people who pretend to have heat exchangers and who do bad calorimetry. There are dozens of dishonest people selling fake over-unit engines (perpetual motion machines). Even when they take large sums of money from the public, the police do not bother them, as far as I know. Perhaps they should, but they don't. > All the other stuff would be icing on the cake. But Rossi is not up on > charges. The standard of proof for civil cases (fraud in this case) is > "preponderance of evidence" and IH couldn't make the case. > I don't know if they could or not. Perhaps they concluded Rossi has no money. Perhaps they feared a jury of fools might award Rossi instead. That's what worried me. All in all, I am glad the whole thing was dropped with prejudice, even though I wanted to see Rossi get his comeuppance. The main point I want to make is that regardless of what the legal system rules are, or preponderance of this or that, anyone with technical knowledge can see from the Penon report that Rossi is a fraud. If you can't see that, you don't have technical knowledge. Or you blinded by wishful thinking. Insofar as this is a technical debate based on scientific & engineering laws, divorced from the legal system and its standard of proof, there is no doubt Rossi is a liar and a fake. Perhaps you disagree. If so, you are mistaken. End of story. - Jed
