On 07/05/2016 04:06 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net <mailto:a.ashfi...@verizon.net>> wrote:
Jed, When you start with certainty that Rossi is a fraud all
becomes clear to you.
I did not start with that idea. On the contrary, as you see in the
quote from me ending Lewan's book, I started with the assumption that
his claims are real.
Anyone who's been on Vortex for longer a than a few months surely knows
this is absolute fact. Jed was more than willing to give Rossi the
benefit of an awful lot of doubt before he came to the conclusion that
the fix was in.
Craig is right. Far better to leave the judgement to an unbiased
expert.
Jed */IS/* an "unbiased expert" in the area of cold fusion experiment
analysis and calorimetry -- or, if anything, I'd have claimed he was
biased in Rossi's favor; and if he's not an "expert" he'd make a pretty
good stand-in for one. The available data is more than adequate to draw
conclusions -- arguing otherwise is like arguing that we "need more
research" to determine if global warming is real.
And just to point out the obvious, IH was */not/* looking for a way to
avoid paying Rossi anything and get out of the deal -- at least not to
start with, they weren't. //They were more like, "Shut up and take my
money!" and it's only the totally failed year long test that changed
their minds. If -- */IF/* -- the Rossi process had been real, it would
have been cheap at $89 million dollars (or even $890 million dollars),
given that they were apparently expecting IP as well as a gadget.
It's absurd to act as though Rossi somehow strong-armed them into
signing the contract, and all they wanted was a way out!
