Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com> wrote: people have to see that the pretended skeptics are in fact conspiracy > theorist of the worst species. >
I agree. Plus they judge everything by personality and their own assumptions, and they see only one side to a personality. They point to Rossi's odd behavior and his dodgy business, but they ignore the fact that he works 12 hours a day and he has invested large sums of his own money. (As Jones Beene pointed out, this is a matter of public record.) You cannot square this behavior with the con-man hypothesis. Con men do not spend years making and testing hundreds of reactors. Mind you, Rossi may well be a con-man in the same sense that Edison and Jobs were. They were dodgy people You Would Not Want to Deal With. Jobs got his start stealing from the phone company and his partner Woz. People who invested with Edison were often fleeced and usually furious. His method was to gather huge sums of money for a given purpose and then splurge on whatever instruments he felt like, keeping no records and paying no bills he could get away with ignoring. When one investor sent a forensic accountant to find out where the last draft of a hundred thousand dollars had vanished, Edison greeted the accountant saying: "It is about time you got here. Did you bring more money? We're running out again." He told the investor to stop worrying about how much it was costing because it would pay off many more times than that. He was right. Still Edison did squander something like $10 million on various hare-brained schemes, which was a lot of money back than. He was not a "safe investment" for the faint-hearted. I have no doubt that if Dr. Alessio Guglielmi, Yugo, Cude or Park had been alive in 1879 they would have condemned Edison as "fraud upon the public" "a disgrace, who takes up backwards" and "a failure masquerading as success." I know they would, because those are quotes from distinguished professors and other self-appointed experts at that time. Such people have been common in every era. They meet every invention and new idea with same tired set of objections, conspiracy theories and ad hominem arguments. Benjamin Franklin, one of the greatest scientists of all times and an acute observer of human nature, described these people to a T. anyway, lie, lie, there will always be something that remain. (french > proverb) > In English that would be "throw enough mud and something will stick." http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Throw+dirt+enough,+and+some+will+stick - Jed
