Krivit just posted to NET his latest report on his visit to Italy... Doesn't paint a very rosy picture, but that was justified since any real questions weren't answered with any real technical data.
What was interesting was this comment by SK, "the day after I left Bologna, I went to Napoli and visited with three Italian researchers, one of them a brilliant 33-year-old scientist who showed me what appears to be a real working experiment (video forthcoming), real scientific data, and real scientific conference presentations and papers. Once I am finished with the Rossi-Focardi-Levi story, I will report on my new findings from this southern Italian laboratory." Do tell! -Mark