OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does anyone seriously question the possibility that Park > remains unaware of Rossi, Defkalion, and the rest of the eCat gang? > Seriously? > It hasn't been in the mass media much. I don't anyone who has discussed this with Park . . . I suppose it is possible he does not know. Or he heard months ago and it slipped his mind. I'm a little puzzled why you think he might refrain from attacking Rossi. Why would he be indirect, or use deflection? He is not reticent about expressing his opinions. If he attacks cold fusion I do not think he would hold back from attacking Rossi. Everyone I know thinks they are the same phenomenon. Rossi and Defkalion deny this but I assume that is only for business purposes. Rossi has no credibility in the wider world. Most news articles say he is probably a fraud. Maybe Park thinks the news articles are enough. Perhaps he thinks Rossi is far out and so disreputable he does not merit debunking. Just another in a long line of frauds. Park says all cold fusion results are fraud or delusion. That's what he told me last time the subject came up. I do not think he bothers to make any distinctions or to call out any particular worker. Perhaps he thinks Rossi is no better or worse than anyone else. You have to realize that people like Park are profoundly ignorant of this subject. He says he has never read any papers and I think that is true. He does not know what the claims are, or what supporting evidence there is, or how many people have replicated. Mary Yugo also says she has read no papers. I believe her. Most confirmed skeptics refuse to read anything. If they read something, and understood it, they would not be skeptics, would they? The only people I know who have read many papers and yet who do not believe the mainstream results such as McKubre's are Britz and Krivit. I find them both a little strange. - Jed
