Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: What to believe about Rossi?
Believe only that which is independently verified by Ampenergo or some other third party. Be careful not to fully dismiss or disbelieve anything. Rossi is full of surprises, and his accomplishments are remarkable. > I believe that Rossi has systematically and deliberately tried to to > "improve" his experimental results, however (I repeat this) he has tried to > convince the public that 2 = 4, not that 0 = 2 and it is a great difference > between these. > Frankly, I cannot tell what he is trying to convince the public of. Sometimes I get a feeling he is understating results. That is, trying to make it look less good than it is, as McKubre pointed out. > I think now that exactly when I was most convinced that Rossi is lying in > the ugiest mode, he was telling the truth or almost the truth, specifically: > I would say that about several people. It is partly Rossi's fault. He does tend to be flamboyant which makes it hard to believe him. Also, at times I think he deliberately makes himself look bad, to throw off the competition. Many businesses do this. It is not unethical in the context of business, but in science it seems disreputable. Do not judge Rossi by the standards of academic science. That's the biggest mistake people make. Judge him instead by the standards of software companies in the go-go 1980s, or railroad financing circa 1870 during the Credit Mobilier scandal. Back then those industries were in the Wild West (figuratively and literally) where no rules applied. Vaporware, rumors, sleight-of-hand tricks, indirection, misdirection and corruption were pervasive. It was an anything-goes, law-of-the-jungle atmosphere. I gather the Italian business world is like that now, and always has been. That is where Rossi comes from. - Jed
