Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Jed, while this might be different groups, I get the impression that many > people trying to make sense from his claims do not think highly of Rossi as > a scientist, yet they will use his claims in their explanations. A person > can not have it both ways. > My understanding is that Rossi does not do mass spectroscopy himself. He is only reporting results that other people obtained. I don't know who is other people are. At one point he said he does not know much about these results or about mass spectroscopy. So his abilities as a scientist is not an issue. I doubt he is making up these mass spec results. A person who does not trust him at all might suspect that. > But this does not give a person freedom to ignore what is well known and > imagine anything even when it conflicts with hundreds of years of study. > How far do you think this freedom to propose anything should go? > Well . . . it is a long shot, but if Mills were to come up with definitive experimental proof of his theory I guess everyone would buy it, even though it seems to contradict a great deal of modern physics. I would give people complete freedom to overthrow every aspect of science if their experiment is good enough. When people do not perform experiments but merely spin theories, I cannot judge and I have no interest. - Jed
