Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> In my mind, this makes any Ampenergo test essentially an internal test, > and not an independent one. Ampenergo gives the appearance of being > another one of the many corporations that Rossi has started up for reasons > known only to him. > Rossi did not start up Ampenergo. Cassarino and the others did. Rossi does not own the company. I have seen the Ampenergo test methods & results. They are better than Rossi's own. I believe them. I do not buy this notion that a test performed by people you know and like is "internal," meaning it is somehow not independent. In 1989, every electrochemist knew Fleischmann and Pons. They all respected them. Many had worked with them, or studied with them. People such as McKubre took the claim seriously because he knew Fleischmann so well. It would be absurd to say that McKubre's work is not independent for that reason. Most fields of science are small worlds in the top people know one another well. They may be friends, or enemies, but they know one another. There are seldom replications or peer-reviews done by complete strangers. - Jed
