Andrew <andrew...@att.net> wrote: ** > For goodness sake - you must have a completely different view of what the > word "independent" means than most other people. >
If Levi had denied he knows Rossi you might have a point. If knowing people and being friends with them precludes scientific independence than no such independence exists. Science is a small world. Everyone knows everyone else. In 1989 and 1990, researchers in roughly 100 labs replicated Fleischmann and Pons. Just about every electrochemist who did that was on a first-name basis with Fleischmann and Pons. There is not an electrochemist in the world who did not know their reputations. That is the only reason they took the claims seriously in the first place. - Jed
