It is well-known that people engaged in wishful thinking often see patterns where there are none. This is why a gambler believes in a lucky talisman. It is less often noted that people in extreme denial sometimes look at a clear pattern and fail to see it. Any reasonable person looking at McKubre Fig. 1 can see that high loading is a control factor for excess heat, and that the results are not erratic or random:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/McKubreMCHcoldfusionb.pdf Cude not only fails to see this pattern, he mixes up two numbers: 1. The number of tests that fail to achieve high loading and therefore do not meet necessary conditions. These never produce heat, which is good evidence that high loading is necessary. 2. The number of tests that achieve high loading and produce high heat. Nearly all of them do. This is irrefutable evidence that high loading is necessary, but not quite sufficient. - Jed
