tomclarke wrote: What does other evidence say about likelihood of Rossi being a fraud?
I have been bothered by the possibility of “fraud” in big science and speculative energy research and development for a while now. This is a good time for me to get this aggravating chip removed from my shoulder.
Let’s start with CERN. When the Higgs field was first proposed in by Peter Higgs in 1964 in a paper submitted to the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) that organization rejected it as the ravings of an unmitigated kook and unsupported by any current understanding of physical law.
Higgs beefed up the paper and it was finally published in Physical Review Letters, a publication associated with the American Physical Society.
Over time, the Higgs theory slowly gained increasing support in high energy physics as it became clear that the standard model was untenable unless this Higgs theory was real.
CERN preceded to use the search for the Higgs to justify their past work and to justify a massive 10 billion dollar rebuild of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the biggest scientific boondoggle ever created.
If CERN does not find the Hggs boson, they have a boat load of Higgsless models to justify the continuation of their pay checks and an avalanche of more bizarre predictions to further unending theoretical development as a means to increased job security into the indefinite future.
Then there is the string theorists; who after decades can’t come up with experiments to justify their work. Is that science? Where is the replication? The string guys don’t even have a first experiment to talk about.
If replication is a measure of fraud, then these string theorists have hoodwinked every institution of higher learning in the world and like a cancer pushed out valid theory from contemporary consideration.
Bill Gates has been dupe by the cigar reactor fraud and Jeff Bezos has fallen for the general atomics fraud.
How many billons have been dumped and will continue to be pumped into ITER fusion reactor that has absolutely no chance of working?
But ITER is not the only snow job to be found in fusion R&D.
http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/ ... 2011-07-29
Over a $100 billion from the USA alone in R&D resources have been funneled into these abysmal monstrosities.
Not one of these horrors has produced as much excess power as Rossi, and none has even produced any steam dripping wet or not.
Yes we must redouble our vigilance against fraud and the hypocrisy that goes along with it because it could well be the end of our science.