The believers in general I find less interesting. After all, it's common knowledge that a magician never reveals his secret. No secret, no trick, no entertainment. However, there is a subset of believers who I do find rather fascinating, and that's the cold fusion scientists who, from what I have seen so far, have largely embraced Rossi. I can understand that, if you've worked on the fringes of the scientific community for twenty or so years, the taste of imminent vindication must be incredibly sweet. However, given the history of cold fusion research and fusion research as a whole, for some reason I would have expected a bit more concern that Rossi isn't dotting all his i's and crossing all his t's. If his claims turn out to be overblown, the fallout from them could damage more than himself and his immediate business and research partners.
From a sample of one? Sounds like a "proof by example" in more ways than one.chrismb wrote:If you [taking it as read that you have such a background] are prepared to make such fawning comments over a whole debacle of events without any scientific merit, then you have totally stumped me and my proposition that modern science is in terminal decline is proven true.
Not that I necessarily disagree with your proposition, if you mean that university (i.e. publicly funded) science has gotten a bit sclerotic. But I'm sure there are many here who would agree with you on that point.
