Craig Haynie <cchayniepub...@gmail.com> wrote: The other thing that confuses me, is that in the contract they signed with > Rossi, they didn't have a clause which allowed them to independently > evaluate the device; nor did it allow them to certify, or reject, the > evaluation of the EVR; and they agreed to Rossi's guy, Penon. Why? >
I have no idea. Let me speculate that they now regret to agreeing on Penon. Anyway, this has no connection to calorimetry. You cannot go from this strange decision by I.H. to conclude that maybe the test worked after all. You can only judge the test by evaluating the data. Since you do not have the data, you cannot judge it. You might take my word for it, but I advise you to follow the motto of the Royal Society, "nullius in verba" -- take nobody's word for it. Don't believe Rossi, or I.H. or me, or anyone until you see the data. What I strongly advise you not to do is speculate and speculate and build castles in the air the way Axil does. You cannot judge calorimetry by pointing to rumors about what people did, or what they may have thought, or by imagining that I.H. would automatically do exactly what *you* would have done in "the first few days" of a test that was going badly. You sure as hell cannot judge calorimetry by reading the stream-of-consciousness fantasy blather that Rossi puts out in his blog! I stopped reading that years ago. I can confirm that back then when he was claiming production lines were being set up, I fact checked some of his claims with people who were working with him, and I determined that there was not one molecule of truth to most of what he said. He makes stuff up!! > It doesn't make sense to me. > It does not make sense to me, either. Maybe it was a dumb mistake? > It's not something that their lawyers should have allowed . . . > Lawyers make mistakes too. > . . . nor something I would have agreed to, if I was Darden, unless I was > certain of the outcome. > You can never be certain of the outcome, but I agree Darden should have been more careful. I feel sorry for him. - Jed
