seedload wrote:There will never be a disappointment. These things don't end, they peter out, and before the last gasp of hope disappears, a new 'thing' replaces the prior, renewing hope and promise with no lessons ever learned. Rossi's appear even as BLPs slowly fade away.ScottL wrote:The misuse of the prefix "patho" assigned infers an unwillingness or inability to accept any claim, not just Rossi's claim, but any claim. I don't believe in Rossi's claims due to the evidence or lack there-of. We'll know 100% if his devices are mass produced by the end of the year. The frustrated part of me wishes we'd receive an apology from the believers, but that will never happen. The empathetic part feels for what will be a very disappointing end result for them.
See the following:
Notice that the conversation is shifting away from 'Rossi' to 'LENR' in general and the discussion of belief and skeptisism is being treated as if we were discussing LENR all along with no more mention of Rossi in particular.stefanbanev wrote: You are definitely welcome to be skeptical it's not a crime... As well as to have more tolerance for people who does not share your level of skepticism would be welcome as well... Any kind of believe is an extreme, the believe in scam as well as believe in LENR. The believe is a result of lack of evidences and at this point (in my opinion) there is no a definitive facts supporting any side. So far, all evidences (from my perspective) are circumstantial/indirect thus, the assessment of probability is a personal choice... very likely (in my opinion) LENR is a practical tech and quite soon will make a dramatic impact; who first will come to market is irrelevant for me... when - is more interesting... By the way, the pathological skepticism is an admission of own mediocrecy, once someone has failed to make a splash they deny such ability for others (as self-defense) and in-fact, in 99% cases they turn out to be right just because any breakthrough of such magnitude is really a rare event...
Interesting. I wonder if the author even recognized he was doing this? Hmmm...
I'm curious why it is interesting for you? I guess it probably goes
along the "accomplishment complex" ;o) Anyway, the "shape" of
wave function depends on mind anticipation so, a positive insight has
an utilitarian sense (at least for majority of branches)...
Some fresh update for LENR:
http://e-catsite.com/2012/04/09/italian ... ril-10-14/