Kudos is the translation of a Greek word meaning acclaim or praise for exceptional achievement.
Of course, it applies first and foremost to Andrea Rossi, by way of Focardi, and then to the surprising Greeks, who were not exactly well-known for this kind of financial risk-taking, and who will pick up the 'publicized' tab. but also to the US taxpayer, as they (though several DoE contracts managed by LTI) - seem to have picked up most of Rossi's expenses from about 2000 to 2009 or thereabouts . and also to Alan Fletcher and the 'Fakes' site . which is the intended PR plug for this posting. He did not send me the customary fee :-) The layout of Alan's site and the information content is superb, and should become a model in this regard for future controversial work. http://lenr.qumbu.com/fake_rossi_ecat_frames_v322.php If you first focus on the many ways that a controversial experiment can be faked, and then allow the viewer to weigh the evidence dispassionately, then it comes off a lot more convincingly than the 'cheerleader' kind of presentation that are issued daily by the hundreds of new "online PR firms" which is a phenomenon in itself. For $200 you can have your name in print with all the wild claims imaginable, sent to thousands of gullible other news sites who repackage and resend. Even top Universities are doing this. Nocera of MIT is a PR-hound-deluxe who is symptomatic of the kind of massively overly-hyped R&D of modest importance - that gets out there as breakthroughs . so the top level Universities are not immune. They should put reins on these abuses. Any teenage geek these days with a PC can become a Public Relations entrepreneur - and from the looks of most of the crap coming through on 'google alerts' these days, many of these PR firms are run by gullible twenty-somethings.
