Isn't it ironic in a way, since you have said before that Arata shares a similar level of vanity ?
Arata probably considers himself the father of nanoparticle LENR . without which, Ni-H might not be possible. . so who's you daddy ? From: Jed Rothwell "So there were two parallel lines of research: on one side, the deuterium and palladium people, who never got anything . . ." I have heard he feels that way. Maybe he means they have made little progress toward technology, which is true, but I get the impression he has the same attitude as Arata or Steve Jones: "I'm right; everyone else is wrong."