Peter Heckert wrote:
No one denies that Rossi has a lot of experience!
From his way to answer or ignore reasonable and logical questions I
conclude that he has no experience how to discuss with educated people
that have another opinion than his own....
He is not very good at this. He has spent a lifetime inventing things
that other people claimed could not be done. He has grown used to
arguing with people, and he is used to being right despite what everyone
else says. In this case I have no serious doubt he is right. The problem
is that he made practically no effort to prove he is right because he is
so confident. He did not even bother to put an SD card into the meter, I
suppose because he figured the observers would glance at the temperature
readings and that would satisfy them. It was enough to satisfy him.
Fortunately for us, Lewan wrote them down.
I know many people with the same kind of attitude, especially
scientists. Arata is a prime example. He is not good at explaining
things. His lectures and papers are incoherent in both English and
Japanese. His experiments are awful:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJreportonar.pdf
Arata is also irascible, excitable, and bad tempered to such an extent
he makes Rossi seem like the soul of serenity in comparison. He bellows
and curses and pushes around sixty-year-old full professors. Arata's
public relation skills are much worse than Rossi's. Worse than anyone I
have ever seen. When top science reporters from Japan's newspapers and
NHK national TV asked him technical questions during a press conference,
he bellows out in response: "Don't ask idiotic questions! Don't you know
anything?!? Don't they teach these young whippersnappers anything?!?"
The thing is, Arata is a superlative genius and his claims are correct.
He has dozens of major patents, an international award named in his
honor, dozens of other awards including two from the past and present
Emperor of Japan, a building named in his honor at a National
University, etc. etc. There is no doubt he is a genius. As he will tell
you (at the drop of hat, repeatedly), the Shinkansen trains would not
run without his inventions. So the fact that a person is not good at
communicating is no indication he is wrong. A bad temper is also no
indication whatever that he is wrong. You cannot judge a technical claim
by looking at the person, or the presentation. You must look at facts
only, in isolation, evaluating them by the laws of physics only.
- Jed
