Horace Heffner wrote:
It is not primarily the people competent in this field that stand to be cheated if Rossi's device is a fraud or self deception. There are plenty of people with a lot of money who are scientifically clueless. These are the kind of people that can be suckered in by scientifically inadequate or even misleading demos.
Unless you know of some specific people who may have been suckered in by Rossi's demos, I do not think you should worry about this. I know lots of people with money who would like to invest in Rossi's discovery. They do not appear to be in any danger of being scammed by him. As I have often said, he would make the world's worst confidence-man because he inspires no confidence. Most investors I have spoken have a terrible impression of him because of his demos, his fake PdD and his other quirks. His blog in particular seems to be the worst marketing ploy in the history of commerce.
If he succeeds in convincing people this is real, it will be in spite of the demonstrations and his blog, not because of them. I think it is only likely to happen if Defkalion is telling the truth, and if they release test results from the Min. of Energy or someplace like that.
I think he writes the blog as a hobby, as a way to relax, and as a way to get good ideas from other people. It probably does him a world of good. It causes no harm, and there is no reason why he should stop. People opposed to Rossi have said the blog may be clever viral marketing, or part of a scheme to defraud people, or an effort to make him look mainstream by the title "Journal of Nuclear Physics." Such claims are ludicrous. It is the extreme opposite of good marketing or an effort to appear mainstream! If Rossi deliberately set out to make himself look like a disreputable, eccentric, over-unity energy claimant, he could not give a more convincing impression of that.
- Jed
