Rossi doesn't behave very ethically or in a trustworthy way as a business man either.
Plus he is not just a business man, he pretends to be an engineer and what is selling is not a toy or a novel but a technical device to produce energy and as so it has to obey the laws of nature. My position is very simple. If the e-cat would be available for open experimentation what Rossi does or does not would not be relevant in terms of the science and tech of the e-cat. Maybe it would be still an interesting topic because people are also interested in the life of scientists, inventors and technical people. But at the moment we don't have an e-cat available so how Rossi behaves and acts is relevant. This can give clues on the validity of his claims. And what I have seen so far seems the behavior of a scam artist and not somebody that has in his hands one of the most important discoveries in history. Fermi was right when he asked "Where are they?" when he heard colleagues arguing about the possibility of ET. It is not logical for intelligent beings with interstellar travel capabilities to come here and probe our anuses as their main motivation to do so. It doesn't make sense. Same thing with Rossi. His behavior is not logical for a real inventor or even a serious businessman. Can you mention another bona-fide invention in the history of modern technology that has been marketed in a similar fashion ? I cannot think of any. G On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>wrote: > Giovanni Santostasi <gsantost...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> But, as a scientist I want the truth and I hate, yes hate, scam artists >> of any type, in particular when they use science as a prop for their >> egotistical and destructive goals.Rossi is making astounding claims so he >> should be under intense scrutiny and people should not make continuous >> justifications for his strange and unprofessional behavior. >> > > 1. He is under intense scrutiny. So far, no one has found any hint of > experimental fraud. You have no reason to think he is committing fraud. > > 2. He is not a scientist so he has no obligation to act like one. Normal > behavior for a businessman would be unethical for a scientist, and vice > versa. > > 3. His behavior is not all that strange. In any case, it has no bearing on > his experimental results. And it is none of your business. It is a free > country. He can act any way he wants. He is under no obligation to meet > your standards, mine, or the standards of academic scientists. He has > contempt for most academic scientists. He thinks they are trying to steal > his ideas. I think some of them are. > > 4. No one is making justifications for his behavior. McKubre and I have > explained it, not excused it. If you do not believe our explanation, that's > fine. Take it or leave it. Mary Yugo does not think we have explained it. > That's no problem, but she should stop saying "no one can explain this" or > "no one has explained this." She should say: "I do not believe these > explanations. I think McKubre and Rothwell are wrong." > > - Jed > >
