Stephen A. Lawrence <sa...@pobox.com> wrote: No financial backers or investors? > > If this is true, it puts everything in a very different light. >
This is the Rossi/Magic 8-ball effect. Ask again later. No, I mean it: Reply hazy, try again Ask again later Better not tell you now One day he will say he say no one is financing him. The next thing you know it is company in Greece that has never heard of him. Oh wait, that in his blog, but the name is wrong. ASK AGAIN LATER > If he isn't, then the whole notion that this could be a "con" comes > tumbling down, because nobody is being "conned". > The term "con-man" means "confidence man." A con-man works by inspiring false confidence in himself. He smooth talks the mark into thinking of him as a trustworthy, reliable, solid person. A good investment. Safe, calm. That is about as far from Rossi as anyone can be! I have met dozens of oddball people in the cold fusion biz but I have NEVER encountered anyone who set off more Red Alerts. I mean it when I say that if he had deliberately set out to make himself look bad he could not have done it more effectively. He makes every public relations mistake I can think of, again and again. It is agonizing to watch. In a strange way, it gives me confidence he is not a con-man. He would make the world's worst con-man. He would starve, if that's how he makes a living. Think about it: In the age of the Internet, does a con-man tell you he has a PdD from a defunct diploma mill that anyone can find in 3 seconds flat? Maybe it is a sophisticated mind-game, where he makes himself look so much like what you fear he may be, he convinces you he cannot be that thing. It is an enigma. - Jed
