On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 09:37:17AM -0400, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Susanna Gipp <susan.g...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I know that for hard believing fans these worth gold but for us poor > > skeptics it looks like one of our smart energy hero's countless jokes. > > > > It might be a joke, but it would be an expensive and pointless one. What > purpose would it serve? If he is engaged in fraud, how will this help? Why > would he care what large numbers of people believe? It isn't as if his fans > are sending him small donations.
unsuckscribe LENR-kook-list > Your hypothesis is that this is a joke of some sort. I see no evidence for > this. None of us knows what Rossi is up to, or which statements he makes > are true and which are not. You have no more justification for your views > than anyone else, so I do not see why you are so certain you are right. > > To justify the notion that this is a joke or fraud, a person can string > together a long chain of suppositions, maybe this, suppose that, but there > is no evidence for any of this speculation. It is a sterile waste of time. > For every link in that chain there is inexplicable counter-evidence. > > For example, if we assume that Rossi's tests are fake, then why on earth > did he do a real test when NASA visited? A real test that was an utter > failure! Why would he make a fool of himself and show them a machine that > does not work when he routinely shows people a fake machine that looks like > it is working? I guess you could say suppose this and that and he did not > think he could fool NASA so he used a non-working demo and blah, blah, but > that does not add up either. The experts from U. Bologna would be as hard > to fool as the people from NASA. He worked with them for months with what > appear to be real systems. Besides, people of this caliber would see > through a fake in no time. The NASA people realized from the start that the > test was not working. It did not fool them. Rossi claimed it was working, > but they could see he was being sloppy and he was wrong. > > I agree that none of this makes sense, at least from the outside. People's > actions often fail to make sense. > > - Jed
