On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:50 PM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I guess my confidence in many of his statements is that they tend to be > confirmable by my model performance. If he were totally full of "***" then > why insist upon a COP that is reasonable, but low, when claiming a higher > value would be advantageous? How would extending this claim make him more > of a dud? > I had a similar experience with a reactionless drive technology. http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9243&cid=576230 When the "kook" provides you with actual data that you can analyze, and then infer things about the device that cross-check with reality in a way that is unlikely to have been confabulated by the "kook", it has to make you take the "kook" more seriously.
