Shaun Taylor <shauntaylor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rossi is a liar. Stop defending a liar saying he has the same rights to > conduct business as an honest man. There is no law against dishonesty in business, as long as you do not cross certain lines. Mostly arbitrary lines. If liars did not have the right to do business, Wall Street would not exist. > Would you do business with a man that you knew to be a liar? Not me, no. I have said that dozens of times. > Why trust anything he says, including his test data? > I do not trust his test data. I trust other people's test data taken from his machines, and independent replications of them. Since these other people are honest, that proves he is honest, too. You have naive notions about life if you think liars are not allowed to do business, and if you think that we have to judge experimental results based on the personality or proclivities of researchers. Many researchers are scoundrels. Many are liars, cheats or plagiarists. If we had to depend on their honor, science would not work. That is one of the reasons replication is essential. If his Ecat works as claimed, Rossi would have no reason to lie. I can think of many reasons why he should lie! He has no intellectual property. He can't get any either, given the political opposition to this research at the Patent Office, and Rossi's lack of knowledge about how the thing works. > He lies because the Ecat does not do what he claims it does. > You have that backward. He lies to make it look like it does *not* work. > > Lewans now claims to have known the BBB never shipped and following that > knowledge knew Rossi was lying when he stated several time he was attending > the secret customer's US install site. . . . For all anyone knows he has been to the secret site. Lewan and I do not follow Rossi around. - Jed
