On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Charles Hope <lookslikeiwasri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That's fine, but then Rossi and his believers need to quit complaining or >> expressing alarm when folks see this misdirection and reasonably interpret >> it as evidence of a scam. > > > Misdirection is routinely practiced by most businesses. IBM was famous for > it back in the 1970s. For example, they would announce an "initiative" > which they never intended to follow through on, in order to stop a > competitor. This is mean spirited, and perhaps unfair, but it is not > unethical, and it certainly not a scam. Unless you hold that most > corporations are engaged in scams. > IBM's "vaporware" gambit was a scam and the DOJ took IBM to court for it and also Kodak for similar maneuvers. I do not think this is "evidence." This is your opinion, or your gut > feeling of distrust. I do not trust Rossi myself (not to do business with > him), but I would never glorify this feeling of mine by calling it > "evidence" of anything. It is intuition. I think "evidence" should mean > "a body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition > is true or valid." That is, objectively verifiable facts in the real world, > such as reports that someone has been scammed (or claims to be), or that > Rossi has investors who have not performed independent tests of his > equipment. > Interestingly, Steorn's investors have never made a public statement or taken the company or its officers to court and they are most certainly and obviously a scam. Perhaps they're embarrassed. Lack of investor complaints is not necessarily counter evidence for a scam, especially fairly early in its development.
