"You are beating a dead horse. I get sick of it." No, what you are sick of is the cognitive dissonance. The lack of clear, decisive proof that the eCat is real.
You are unable to embrace the ambiguity and feel that the world must be black or white. The fact that it isn't is clearly upsetting you. Unfortunately, in the absence of inescapable proof either way, there is an ambiguity. A cognitive dissonance that our brains need to deal with. And yeah, it's sickening for sure, and some people deal with it better than others. Those who deal with it best I find make the best predictors of what's really about to happen next. While you are a very smart guy and well informed, your lack of ability to embace the dissonance here makes me wonder about your ability to estimate the probability of the eCat being real or not. MaryYugo is a pretty bright person as well. However, she is also someone that obviously can not embrace the ambiguity. On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > blaze spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: > > To be clear, obviously I do not know which. However, until the eCat is >> fully in the public eye I don't think anyone can authoritatively say either >> way, and I think it's a bit irresponsible trying to do so (negative or >> positive). > > > My point exactly. It is a bit irresponsible when you write: ". . . he's > setting it all up for someone else to be responsible for this massive fraud > as he tries to detach himself from the entire enterprise." > > This is not a big deal. There are hundreds of people out there saying bad > things about Rossi. Heck, there is a web site devoted to it. Plus that > wacky paper by Ericsson and Pomp. Rossi invites that kind of attack by > acting squirrely. > > Still . . . unless you have evidence of fraud maybe you should follow your > own advice here. What you wrote causes no harm. But I find it disagreeable, > because I have been hearing over and over and OVER for 20 years about every > cold fusion scientist is a fraud. I get sick of it. You are beating a dead > horse. We know you think that. We don't care, and we don't want to hear it. > > - Jed > >
