On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Peter Gluck wrote: > >> However a good report must answer in advance to all the possible (and >> impossible too) questions of the amateur and professional skeptics. >> > That is impossible. Skeptics can come up with an unlimited number of > skeptical objections, especially after they assume that the researchers are > dishonest and trying to fool the world. For example, people who think that > the Moon Landings were fake will find any amount of evidence for that, and > any number of reasons not to believe the truth. > > - Jed > > Moon landing skeptics are wackos, not scientists. Rossi skeptics are scientists, not wackos. If we are simply to trust people's claims, then what's a demo for? If the effect were real, making a demo that required no trust would be child's play. I don't need to trust Henry Ford to believe internal combustion engines work, or Lisa Meitner to believe fission reactors work, or Richard Garwin to believe hydrogen bombs work... you get the drift.
