He has plainly made some interesting demos and if this is true then yes that is very disappointing. Sock puppets to praise your own work is more than a bit creepy.
It does seem he had an issue with criticism and somehow (how I'm not sure) I managed to piss him off. As true as all that may be personally I am not as tempted to disregard something because someone has some personality problems since I was communicating with him before and after he managed to get the effect and the video looks convincing and knowing that however it works the SEC does have some anomalous results so whatever it's not like the guy makes everything up. Yes, something did seem a bit odd about the self powered version I agree with you there. On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:25 AM, William Beaty <bi...@eskimo.com> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, John Berry wrote: > > in the general region as both Hiddink claimed and was to a lesser degree > > reported by Stiffler, also a guy on a Ed Gray conversion tube list after > > listening to me tried some stuff out and fried a pack of distant diodes. > > Stiffler's reputation on this list is a bit low, to say the least. > > He claimed to have a self-oscillating FE device which lit some LEDs, and > posted youtube video about this. Then suddenly he wouldn't talk about it, > and went on to other subjects. At the same time on another video he > mentioned that he'd been doing things to mess with people who criticized > him. So perhaps that FE LEDs video was completely fake. At that point I > decided that he was a possible scammer, or possible dishonest sociopath > who enjoys fooling people. > > He left this list right about the time that a subscriber found him using > "sock puppet" online personalities to praise his own work. After leaving, > he joined Vortex again under more than one false name. He may still be > here right now. > > So at present I see him as totally untrustworthy, and I put zero faith in > any results he reports. I don't think he's after money, I think he's > after attention, or perhaps is an example of a common type of person found > online: the schadenfreude addict. Where FE is concerned, we should > permanently turn away from anyone who violates trust like this. > > > (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) > William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website > billb at amasci com http://amasci.com > EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair > Seattle, WA 206-762-3818 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci > >
