Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
The Steorn engineers are not self-deluded.
They're dishonest.
Fraudulent.
I have not been following the story. Is there evidence that they
benefited financially? It isn't a fraud unless someone is defrauded.
People have claimed the Mills is a fraud, but I see zero evidence for
that. He has collected millions of dollars, but it has been spent on
laboratory equipment and salaries. If he was dishonest he would take
the money and run, instead of spending it on mass spectrometers. Is
there evidence that the people at Steorn have collected money and not
spent it on research? Or that they paid themselves more than a
typical researcher might earn? If there is no evidence for this, and
if most of the money has been spent, then I suppose it is not fraud.
- Jed
