Q. Will you use an oscilloscope on your next test?
A. That depends on Prof. Levi, who specifies the instrumentation.
Rossi: The experimenters were free to use any test equipment of their
choosing.
Testers: That depends on Prof. Levi, who specifies the instrumentation.
Yup, ethical as all get out.
Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Akira Shirakawa" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 2:02 AM
Subject: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question
Hello group,
It appears that this email by prof. Guglielmi of the University of Bath is
being circulated in several blogs. In short, the author wonders whether
Levi et al. did with their E-Cat investigation a good job from an ethical
point of view. I don't necessarily agree with the message, but I think
it's brave of him to put his real name (and those of a few supporters) on
this. History will tell whether he was right or not.
http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2013/05/ethics-of-e-cat.html
http://news.newenergytimes.net/2013/05/27/scientific-ethics-of-e-cat-promoters-questioned/
http://ecatnews.com/?p=2545#comment-50191
http://wavewatching.net/fringe/the-hot-cat-report/#comment-5641
http://fusionefredda.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/vettore/#comment-21110
(original)
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 11:58:24 +0100
To: Giuseppe Levi, Torbjörn Hartman, Bo Höistad, Roland Pettersson, Lars
Tegnér, Hanno Essén
From: Alessio Guglielmi
Subject: Ethics of your recent work with Mr Rossi
Cc: Ugo Bardi, Dario Braga, Sylvie Coyaud, Camillo Franchini, Giancarlo
Ruocco
Dear Doctors Levi, Foschi, Hartman, Höistad, Pettersson, Tegnér and
Essén,
I have read your recent manuscript `Indication of anomalous heat energy
production in a reactor device containing hydrogen loaded nickel powder´
on arXiv and I am very perplexed.
You are aware that several alleged technical mistakes have been pointed
out, such as omitting control on DC current input (which has been
acknowledged by Prof. Essén in a recent interview) and assuming that the
output heat is released by a perfect black body (this assumption is
contested by Prof. Gianni Comoretto, for example). The picture that
emerges, and I am sorry if this sounds offensive, is that some crucial
measures have not been taken seriously enough on a discovery that, if
genuine, would alter the history of mankind.
However, I have an issue that appears to me even more important, because
it concerns the very essence of your continued activities on Rossi’s
device. Our job as researchers is to advance knowledge, and to do so
whatever we investigate must be reproducible by other researchers, so
that the knowledge we generate becomes established and we can move
forward. This seems at odds with your behaviour. You went to the workshop
of a private individual who claims to be solving half of mankind’s
problems, and performed measures on a device that you could not fully
control and that is not available to other researchers. Therefore, your
manuscript does not contain any reproducible experience. So, how does it
advance knowledge? What do we learn?
This brings me to asking another natural question: who will profit from
the release of your manuscript? You do realise that Mr Rossi sells
distribution licences and that he needs to convince customers to order
some of his plants. There is no doubt that your manuscript will help that
market, but is this something that academics should do? Is our job to
help a private sell his stuff in the absence of solid, reproducible
evidence?
In other words, I wonder whether you are adhering to the scientific
method and I wonder whether what you are doing is legitimate for
academics. Others questioned your technical ability, but I think that the
ethical questions that I am posing here come before, also because they
are more understandable by the layman. I trust that you appreciate my
frankness, and I hope that you can prove my concerns unjustified.
I am forwarding this letter in copy to several persons who are following
this matter: Ugo Bardi (Professor of Chemistry, Univ. Florence, blogger),
Dario Braga (Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, University of Bologna),
Sylvie Coyaud (Scientific Journalist, Il Sole 24 Ore), Camillo Franchini
(blogger, former Supervisor of the CAMEN nuclear plant) and Giancarlo
Ruocco (Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, La Sapienza, Rome). Whoever
wishes to publish this letter is welcome to do so, of course, and I hope
that also the answer could be given public form.
Could you please forward this letter to Dr Foschi, whose address I could
not find?
Best regards,
Alessio Guglielmi
University of Bath
http://alessio.guglielmi.name
Cheers,
S.A.
