That's fine, but then Rossi and his believers need to quit complaining or expressing alarm when folks see this misdirection and reasonably interpret it as evidence of a scam. They should admit that fraud is a rational conclusion.
On Nov 27, 2011, at 13:05, "OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson" <orionwo...@charter.net> wrote: > From Jed: > >>>> What would be the advantage to Rossi if he provided a conclusive test? >>> >>> The advantage would be that people would believe him. If he did not want >>> to be believed, why has he gone through all the demonstrations he has > done >>> thus far with invited guests including press and scientists? >> >> Look, this really is not complicated. He wants to be believed a little, >> by some groups of people, so that he can sell them reactors. He does not >> want to be believed by everyone at this time. Many other inventors such >> as Edison and Patterson did the same thing for the same reasons. > > FWIW it appears that Saddam Hussein followed a similar strategy of > misdirection in regards to weapons of mass destruction. This is based on > hindsight analysis - when we tried to figure out why we got it so wrong and > ended up invading Iraq at the needless cost of thousands of lives. However, > a major difference between Saddam and Rossi was that in Saddam's case he was > trying to convince neighboring adversaries of the fact that he HAD them (so > that they would continue to fear him and not invade), while simultaneously > trying to convince everyone else of the act that he didn't possess any. > > I guess one could say that in Saddam's case he got mixed results. > > I guess one could say the same about Rossi, but then, the jury is still out > on that one. ;-) > > Be that as it may, it is clear that tactics of misdirection and > disinformation are used all the time both in covert warfare and in matters > of covert business strategy. It would appear that any corporation that wants > to remain in business had better be prepared to play the game. > > Regards, > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks >
