I think this below refers to a different type of fraud, it is simply about faked data. This is rather primitive.
This other fraud that is more elaborate is faking the apparatus and is often done by non-experts. This all might start by thinking out of the box. Thinking out of the box is fine, but consider Sturgeons law: "98% of everything is crap". The contents of the box is selected, it contains values that are believed to be true. Outside of the box you will find 98% or more crap. There are much more possibilities to find a possibility of scam or error than to find free energy. Even the probability of self-fooling is higher than the possibility to find free energy or free money. Therefore if someone is megalomaniac and thinks or searches out of the box then he will most probably find a method to fool himself, or to fool others. Initially he might truly believe it works, but then he thinks, "if I trick a little bit or leave some necessary steps out, then I will advance faster and nobody will be hurt". This is the mechanism. Normally these inventors (think about Steorn) will invent mechanisms that are outside of common experience of experts. The measurements and data will be outside the frame of experience of true experts and scientists and so these can be fooled also. Peter ----- Original Nachricht ---- Von: Peter Gluck <[email protected]> An: VORTEX <[email protected]> Datum: 10.11.2011 10:31 Betreff: [Vo]:How scientific fraud is like Ponzi Finance > This is a paper from the next issue of Informavore's Sunday: > "How Scientific Fraud Is Like Ponzi Finance:" > http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/how-scientific-fraud-is- > like-ponzi-finance/2478 > 85/ > > A good idea, however I think nuanced thinking has to be applied. A > financial > criminal can do a few honest deals, a scientific (technical) fraudster can > be sometimes a good researcher and can do useful work too- nothing is 100% > evil. There exists honest errors, dishonest errors, partial lies, bicolor > lies, > semi-truths and semi-lies, etc. > no replacement material (for good intentions- good for whom?) was found for > the pavement of the way to Hell. In a word- Complexity! > Peter > > > -- > Dr. Peter Gluck > Cluj, Romania > http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com >
