Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't recall Rothwell saying that Rossi lies. > Because I never did say that. I said repeatedly that as far as I know, he always tells the truth about engineering technical details. Mind your, the list of his statements we compiled includes some diametrically opposite assertions: http://www.peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Andrea_A._Rossi_Cold_Fusion_Generator:Rossi%27s_Hints I assume that is because he changed his mind. Or because he does not know what he talking about, he makes a wild guess, and he forgot what he said last time. Many scientists do that. Some engineers do too, less often. If you were to arrest scientists and engineers for making wild guesses and being wrong . . . they would all be in jail. Managers -- who always tell the truth -- would have run everything themselves. Rossi often speculates about theory, but I think it is clear he is speculating. He sometimes says wild things when he gets angry, such as his initial statements about his break with Defkalion. He soon retracted these statements. I would call this spouting off, rather than lying. It is what a cranky 4-year-old does. As I remarked to Mary, he is sometimes manipulative, and I suspect he practices misdirection and selective leaking of facts. So did Edison and so does IBM. Many programmers and engineers do that. Present company excepted! - Jed
