>From Jed: Some follow-up comments.
>> For me this truly begs a nagging question. Of what importance, >> if any, could actually be discussed at such a meeting >> conducted by Melich. > > A great deal. Melich has a lot of technical info on this. > He has read the papers published by Rossi and understands them > better than I do. I hope your perception on this particular matter is accurate. I'll elaborate some more on that matter further on down. >> It's my understanding, according to Krivit, that Rossi >> has stated that Melich is NOT speaking on his behalf. > No one speaks for Rossi. Make sense to me. >> ON WHOSE BEHALF IS MELICH SPEAKING FOR? What's Melich's >> objective? What's in it for him? > That's a really dumb comment. This is a scientific conference. > He is speaking on behalf of science, reporting technical > facts. That's what people do at conferences. His objective > is to enlighten his colleagues. > This is not a secret conspiracy or a pulp thriller. It > is real life. It is a physics conference. Dull as dishwater, > believe me. I'm certainly not immune to occasionally making dumb comments or completely misinterpreting events. I'm also not immune to misinterpreting the personal motivations of others. Shoot! Sometime I don't know what my own personal motivations might be at a particularly pregnant moment of time. I continue to surprise myself! Nevertheless, the "dumbness" of my commentary is to a large extent derived from the puzzling comments one can retrieve from Krivit's own assessment of Melich. For example, Krivit sez the following: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2011/36/3625rf-melichmacy.shtml Excerpt: > For many years, Melich has gone out of his way to give > people in the LENR field, including me, the impression > that he is a covert intelligence agent, specifically > tasked by the U.S. government to promote and keep an > eye on “cold fusion.” Many people in the field have > believed this and consequently have responded to him > deferentially and with unusual openness. One problem > with his methods is that true covert operators never > try to give people the impression that they are covert > operators. I guess I should come out of the closet here and reveal an insignificant personal fact. For a short period last year I was an active BoD member on Mr. Krivit's NET magazine. FYI, Others within the Vort Collective, (who shall remain nameless) have also been BoD members. Therefore, for me to "confess" the fact that I was at one time a BoD member is not that big of a deal. To clarify, the duration of my BoD participation didn't last terribly long. After some official BoD deliberation it finally came to a point where we mutually agreed upon the fact that the best course of action would be for me to resign, particularly when it became obvious that Mr. Krivit and I shared different POVs on several matters. While our last official NET-BoD communications might have been described as, how shall I put it... somewhat contentious, it remains my hope that Krivit and I parted amicably. We certainly wished each other well. And now, with that little bit of personal soap-opera drama out of the way, I would like to once again express a concern that Melich seems to have acquired a mysterious mystique about himself, this depending on who you talk to. I gather Mr. Krivit acquired questions pertaining to Melich's activities and speculated motivations. To be honest, I don't know what to think about this particular matter. I've never met Melich in person. Therefore, I have to rely on the perceptions others have acquired.I honestly don't know if Krivit's concerns are valid or not. I refuse to pass judgment on Krivit's perceptions, other than to express the fact that there probably are reasons as to why Krivit acquired such "concern". I am not privy to the specifics, however, and as such I don't wish to add more disinformation and unfounded speculation to the stew. I only wish to reiterate a perception that Melich seems to have acquired a mystique about himself - that perhaps to some extent that "mystique" seems to have served Melich in strategically advantageous ways. I hope that might help explain why I originally asked the "dumb" question: "What's Melich's objective? What's in it for him?" Inquiring minds want to know. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
