Jones Beene accused someone here of "pandering of Rossi." I am not sure if that should be "pandering to" or "pandering of" but anyway, I suspect Jones had me in mind when he wrote that. Let me remind people here of some of the things I have said about Rossi, such as:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg42236.html QUOTE from a message I sent Rossi: "Why did you repeatedly refer to it as "Defkalion Energy" when the name is "Defkalion Green Technologies"? Why do you claim you have a degree from a non-existent university? Why don't you post the name of the company in Florida? You cannot have a factory there without a proper registration and telephone number. You should give the name, address andtelephone number. . . . You are saying things and doing things that make you look bad. You are inviting attacks by skeptics." ELSEWHERE: ". . . The question arises: Why is he so scatterbrained? Why does he repeatedly give the wrong names, the wrong information, the wrong addresses, the wrong State, the wrong person, the wrong university? Who makes so many mistakes about his own personal business? . . . It is deeply troubling to me that every time I try to establish some definite fact about Rossi, such as the name of his company or the people funding him, I get a different answer. . . ." If that is "pandering" what would you call criticism? I do not unsay a word of that message, although I suppose in retrospect it was intemperate. I did apologize for overdoing it, and Ross apologized for aggravating me and others. The thing is, nothing about him has changed. He is still scatterbrained, and at his age he is not likely to improve. If you would like to read his blog and you wish to try to learn from it, you will have to accept that many of his statements are . . . how should I put this? . . . many of his statements do not seem to mean what they say. It is impossible to know whether they are the product of a vivid imagination, or lies, or whether it will turn out he knows how to do some things we consider all-but-impossible, such as cheap transmutation. Take it or leave it. Consider it fact or science fiction as you please. Consider it inspiration rather than exposition. If you are looking for an orderly, well-grounded, annotated exposition, look elsewhere. In another forum, I explained the nutty situation regarding the name of the company: ". . . It turned out the correct name is: "Defkalion Green Technologies S. A." Apparently that name simply slipped from Rossi's mind. He apologized. He can be absent minded. In my experience, scientists, engineers and programmers tend to be absent minded. Do not ever ask one of them to make travel arrangements, for example. You will be lucky to end up on the right continent. I am a programmer myself, and I tend to show up at the wrong airport at 9:00 pm for a flight that left at 9:00 am." If you want to judge these experiments based on the personal credibility of the researcher, or conventional academic standards such as the extent to which the researcher is organized and he presents a cogent argument . . . Forget It. People such as Rossi, Arata and many others would fail a freshman course in physics or chemistry. Arata's papers in both languages are an mish-mash of theory and experiments, imagination and reality, with loads of invented words for ordinary things that already have perfectly good words. His preliminary experiment was a mess; see: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJreportonar.pdf Judge Arata by narrow, conventional, externalities and you will be unimpressed. You will not believe him. Despite that, he is a genius. His contributions to cold fusion are very important. His contributions to other fields can be judged by the facts that he has dozens of patents, an international award in his name, an award from the Emperor and another from the previous Emperor, a building named in his honor at a national university, etc, etc., all richly deserved. When you judge Rossi, I suggest you ignore everything but the experimental technique and calorimetric data from Levi et al. If you find no fault in that, you must grant that Rossi is a genius. Whatever else he may be -- a liar, dissembler, scatterbrained, possibly an ex-convict -- he is a superlative genius. And that is the only thing about him that matters. Everything that Beene and others have accused him of is trivial in comparison to his accomplishments. If he succeeds in selling e-Cats to the world, Presidents, Kings, Senators, the New York Times and other Powers That Be will soon fawn over him. They will dismiss his faults as the charming eccentricities of genius, quite beside the point. For once, the Powers that Be will Be Right. - Jed
