On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> MarkI-ZeroPoint <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jed:**** >> >> ** ** >> >> You left out the more important part of my posting:**** >> >> “And JC is WELL aware of this, yet asks the question as to why they used >> 3-phase power in their tests… the second test was SINGLE phase power, so * >> *JC is misleading people**…” >> > > I was giving him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he did not notice that? > Let us see if he now acknowledges the second test was with single phase > power so this is not an issue. > > I think maybe I read that more carefully than you did. In any case, in your little dialog, you try to suggest that skeptics are changing the conditions -- moving the goal posts. But I addressed this earlier, when I quoted at length a post I wrote in April about the possibility of the test, and what I would consider significant evidence for a real effect. What actually happened fell short of every criteria I considered that would make it significant, and met precisely those criteria I said beforehand would fall short. The authors are little-known academics, acting without the backing of their institutions, and they certainly appear to have been hand-picked, 3 of them being previous supporters of obviously flawed demos. They published in an unrefereed journal, and of course, it's a black-box test. Now, believers on the other hand, were talking about independent scientists, with no interference from Rossi, at an independent location, and people like Pekka were predicting publication in Nature or Science, and Rossi talked about peer review in an international magazine. Now, some of the usual suspects on Rossi's property, with the most usual suspect in control, with clear involvement of Rossi (he started one run, and removed the powder in the other), and publication without peer review in arXiv seems to be just fine. It seems like the true believers are the ones moving the goal posts closer.
