Fair enough. I'm merely pointing out what I believe and what I'd bet at. You've already said you're not a betting man, so your participation in this thread is very hard to quantify objectively and so not particularly useful to me.
I'd really like to hear from anyone who would be willing to bet, even if theoretically and what odds would they give? On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > blaze spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: > > I believe that Essen and Levi were not skeptical, independent >> investigators . . . >> > > You have no basis for believing this. There is nothing in their report > that might indicate it. They took every reasonable precaution, such as > setting up a video camera and recording the entire test. > > > >> and that Rossi had plenty of opportunity to rig the test or, >> > > No plausible method of doing this has been suggested by any skeptic. If > the skeptics could think of a way to rig the test, they would have > published it by now. Or do you buy the "cheese" hypothesis, that people > cannot see ordinary wires? > > > >> less likely, they made optimistic measurements. >> > > You can see for yourself that in every instance their measurements are > conservative -- or pessimistic. In every case where they might have > underestimated output, they did so. > > - Jed > >
