Thanks for pointing out the NET article, Alain.
I recall a number of private conversations I had with Steve Krivit concerning the Tsoukalas vs. Taleyarkhan investigation. This was during a time when I was still on Krivit's BoD. (I was on the NET BoD for approximately 3-4 months and ending around May of 2010.) From what I had read Taleyarkhan did seem to have gotten the short end of a splintered stick. Meanwhile, Tsoukalas' professional behavior during the same time period struck me as less than stellar. Let me put it this way to the Vort Collective: I would not have wanted Tsoukalas to have been my boss. The whole affair is a fascinating account. I would encourage the curious to read up on it. It can occasionally read like a juicy soap opera spiced with questionable ethical behavior both on and off the court. I have said this before and I will say it again. Steve Krivit does have the capacity to perform excellent hard-hitting investigative work. I think Krivit's investigations into the Taleyarkhan affair is an example of what Krivit got more right than wrong. The following assessment is most certainly anecdotal and totally derived out of my own flawed opinions: Krivit gives me the impression that he excels at digging up dirt on others. If dirt really exists, such as in the Taleyarkhan account, Krivit is likely to exhume the remains and expose everything in full Technicolor. Unfortunately, if the interpretation of wrong-doing exists primarily within Krivit's personal perceptions, such as in the M4 investigations that alleged McKubre had misrepresented his experimental findings, Krivit is more in danger of coming across as something akin to a stringer for the National Enquirer - as perceived by those who may disagree with his conclusions. One of the principal reasons I resigned from the NET BoD was because I eventually came to the opinion that I flatly disagreed with Krivit's M4 conclusions - that along with Krivit's personal handling of himself on a radio interview where he implied that McKubre had lied about the M4 data. Krivit never came out and deliberately stated on that radio show that McKubre had "lied". Krivit left that to the talk show host to state for the record. Krivit left no doubt in the audience's mind that that is precisely what he wanted the listeners to conclude as well. Putting a positive spin on this whole affair, sometimes the good guy does finish last. In this case, Tsoukalas is out of the picture while I gather Taleyarkhan, even if his professional reputation for the moment remains a tad frayed, still has his job at Purdue. That pretty much tells me everything I need to know about who really held on to his mojo and who couldn't. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson svjart.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/newvortex/
