Jones can tell a bigger, bolder lie than anyone else I know. His chutzpah is unbounded. He does not even bother to make the lie believable He has such contempt for you, the audience, that he does not bother to make the lie seem credible. He reminds me of Soviet Era judges who would send people to Siberia for the crime of destroying a bridge -- a bridge which stands outside the courtroom, undamaged, in plain view through the window. Their real message was: "I can say or do anything I like, no matter how absurd, and you are powerless to stop me. You can't even object."
Here is one example of what Jones does; just one example of many -- Year after year, in lectures, papers and conversation he asserted that all cold fusion excess heat results are artifacts of recombination. He said that even when when McKubre and Storms used closed cells with recombiners; even when the total output far exceeded I*V input; and even (I recall) of heat after death. He was challenged again and again to explain that, in person and in e-mail. He never responded. This was not a smooth lie. It was not the least bit convincing to anyone who understands what "recombination" means. He wasn't being serious, because he does understand elementary science, after all. He said this only to flummox rubes and reporters. He and others also conducted absurd "experiments" to prove there might be recombination in Miles' experiments. He reduced input power by a factor of a thousand and used a cell of the wrong shape. Miles commented that Jones might as well throw some platinum powder into the electrolyte while he is at it. This paper has several other brazen lies: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/JonesSEchasingano.pdf Jones should have been a politician. I would not trust him as far as I can throw him. - Jed
