QuoteRossi is first an entrepreneur/inventor; his first reaction to anyone getting close to his invention is to protect his IP. He has good reason to feel this way because he has been burned in the past by unscrupulous individuals.
This is the weakest type of meta-argument, all assumption and unprovable. Also,in the meta-world, implausible:
Rossi does not strike me as someone concerned to protect IP. He allowed:
- (TWICE) detailed isotopic analysis of ash
- detailed isotopic and experimental analysis of fuel
- detailed time vs temperature analysis of reactor operation (OK - they goyt this wrong, but if the device actually had worked it would have been invaluable)
- detailed waveform analysis of input to heating wires
He spend his whole time providing little snippets of operational and design information. Were this real, and a competitor trying to reverse engineer, Rossi has quite unnecessarily provides them with copious ammunition.