Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
Personally I stopped believing anything Rossi said after the "wet steam/dry steam" business blew up early last year.
That is unfair to Rossi. He did not select the meter which is controversial. He is using industry standard techniques to ensure dry steam. Every expert he has consulted with assures him the steam is dry. Every expert I have consulted with says the same thing.
You should blame him for things that are his fault. The "wet steam/dry steam" controversy has nothing to do with him. As far as I can tell, it is a figment of the skeptics' imaginations.
There are no doubt zillions of cases of hotshot researchers who lied about their results but none the less went on to produce real breakthroughs, as Jed seems to be fond of asserting, but I'm afraid the opposite is quite a bit more common. (Google "korea clone" for a perhaps more typical example.)
It makes no difference which is more common. We can be sure that Rossi's claims are real because they have been independently tested by Ampenergo and others, and independently replicated by Defkalion. We do not have depend on his judgement or his honesty. If we did have to depend on those things, I would not believe a word of it.
- Jed
