On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 9:54 AM, <pagnu...@htdconnect.com> wrote: > > He should publicly issue a challenge to CF/LENR researchers to allow him > to witness and monitor > their experiments. >
If we learned nothing else from the experiences with Rossi, it should be that "witness and monitor" isn't enough. I suppose it may depend on what "monitor " means -- that's a bit vague. What's needed is for disinterested (*neutral*) investigators with the appropriate capabilities to replicate the work *independently* of the proponent. Having a reporter look over the shoulder of a scientist is always fun and interesting but it is rarely definitive proof that what is going is real and is being honestly and accurately represented. Especially when claims are unexpectedly robust or when independent verification is long delayed, there needs to be suspicion at least of error and in some rare instances, of fraud.
