On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. > Guess you don't know me! I think there might possibly be something to cold fusion. I also think Rossi is most likely a crook and his E-cat is a fraud. I also think Defkalion has nothing and never did -- not even as lame a bunch of evidence as Rossi has tried to put forth. Mary Yugo also says she has read no papers. > No longer the case. I slogged through a couple, was not impressed by their clarity and robustness and stopped reading them. When I read a paper purporting to show a new source of energy, I want to see iron clad blank runs and calibrations and then I want to see a robust, long lasting excess heat shown on a proper heat output vs time plot. > I believe her. Most confirmed skeptics refuse to read anything. If they > read something, and understood it, they would not be skeptics, would they? > Sure they would be -- if they either didn't believe the results or thought they were insufficient proof. > 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. > I'm sure they return the compliment. Parks is a straw man and a red herring to combine two metaphors in one. Everyone including him would be convinced if Rossi had bothered to get ONE single properly done independent test or if any other researcher had anything like Rossi's claimed robust output and got it properly verified. With respect to Rossi, the single good test would have to be in addition to or instead of his weird and likely misdirecting and deceptive demonstrations. And that's before you even get to his ridiculous, laughable, comically awkward, anonymous client who is said to have bought 13 essentially useless leaky kloodges in huge containers. Like he really expected anyone to believe that unsupported assertion? That's more than 1300 Ottoman E-cats to service and maintain! How would you like that job? Strangely, a surprising number of people actually believe this improbable fantasy! I never cease to be amazed at that.
