Randy Wuller <[email protected]> wrote:

Your point is not well taken.  Proof is a continuum.
>

Exactly! Yes it fraud is remotely possible, as I and everyone else who
believes these results agree. We think it is highly unlikely, because it
the instruments are reliable; because you can't melt steel by hiding
electricity; and because fraud is certain to be caught before Rossi can
cash in, so it serves no purpose.

I think Andrew should address these issues.


 In this case you must posit fraud to counter proof.  Fraud may or may not
> be actually possible in this case but it can always be imagined.
>
> The real question is whether the scientific community is required to
> ignore these results because they can imagine fraud.  Such a position is
> beyond lunacy to me. . . .
>

Right! Well said.

- Jed

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