Mary Yugo <[email protected]> wrote: Ah. You must not have been reading what I wrote carefully. I never said > Rossi is committing fraud. I said that I think he *may be* committing > fraud. Some places I said "most likely" and "may very well" be committing > fraud. That isn't libel -- not in the US anyhow. >
Please do not be legalistic. Please do not write messages that have to "read carefully" or they will give the impression you are committing libel. I do not care what constitutes libel strictly according to the law. What you are doing is libelous, in my opinion. > Personal opinion is protected by freedom of speech as long as it's so > stated. > This has nothing remotely to do with freedom of speech. > I think Bill Beaty should ask you to stop. >> > > If he did, I would -- but only because this real estate is his property. > Here are the rules he posted: "NO SNEERING. Ridicule, derision, scoffing, and ad-hominem is banned. "Pathological Skepticism" is banned (see the link.) The tone here should be one of legitimate disagreement and respectful debate. Vortex-L is a big nasty nest of 'true believers' (hopefully having some tendency to avoid self-deception,) and skeptics may as well leave in disgust. But if your mind is open and you wish to test "crazy" claims rather than ridiculing them or explaining them away, hop on board! http://www.amasci.com/weird/wvort.html More: http://amasci.com/weird/vmore.html http://amasci.com/pathsk2.txt > I hope he won't. I think the debate is reasonable and fairly polite all > around. Although some enjoy my sarcastic humor, I have stopped doing it > after the complaints. > There is nothing funny about unfounded accusations of criminal behavior and fraud. You are not being sarcastic; you are dead serious. You are trolling the Internet telling hundreds of people that Rossi is a criminal. I know many scientists whose careers and lives were destroyed by such accusations. > At this point of time, having a factory that makes a NUCLEAR FUSION > REACTOR in quantities for retail sales is almost if not just as unlikely as > a unicorn farm. > That is your opinion and you have a right to it, but thousands of cold fusion scientists disagree with you. Please refrain from accusing them of being criminals. All of them, including Rossi. Most people here disagree with you. We know what you think. It is disagreeable and impolite for you to repeat that so often. It is not "legitimate disagreement and respectful debate" to tell a group of people that the research have devoted the last 22 years of their lives to has no more validity than a "unicorn farm." Go ahead and think that if you like. Many people do. We are all well aware of that. Just don't keep harping on it. You may think you are clever but you are not telling us anything we have not heard a million times before. Keep it up and everyone will add you to their auto-delete list. No one will hear you. - Jed
