Eric Walker wrote:
Most scientists, I expect, believe that a completely unequivocal demonstration of claims of Rossi's magnitude would be a trivial thing to stage, and would bear no resemblance to the farce that we are seeing.If there is any point of unanimity here (and there are very few), it is that Rossi does himself no favors by being squirmy. I don't think this is a point that is contested.
I do not contest this in general but according to all participants these researchers had complete autonomy. If there are problems in the design of this experiment the fault is theirs alone. Rossi had no say in the matter, except as noted in the report he restricted access to parts of the experiment. These restrictions made the test a "black box" test of input and output. This is what many skeptics have been asking for. Now that they have been given what they asked for, they reject it, as I knew they would.
The engineers at Elforsk disagree with Cude. They do not think this was a farce. They know much more about measuring energy and electricity than he does, so I suppose they are correct and he is wrong.
- Jed
