You should believe that. Vaughn is a religious nut. Darden is basically a bullshipping CEO who has no technical aptitude whatever. And Darden relied on (ROTFWL) the Swedish scientists, Levi, their incompetent mismeasured experiments with hotcats, and the crappola Rossi told him. I will bet you dollars against donuts that Darden never consulted with any nuclear power or heat transfer/fluid flow specialists of any renown nor with any large testing organization or university physics department. Of course not, Rossi impressed on him how everything had to be secret. Darden should have contacted Krivit, Wright and/or me for an executive summary of the history of Rossi's checkered and criminal past and his previous project failures (and no successes). Had he done all of this, he never would have given Rossi money. Dick Smith, wanting to invest in Defkalion did his due diligence including consulting with internet critics of Rossi's including the ones I mentioned. He did not invest and saved a million $ or more. IH did not do proper due diligence (obviously). So yes, IH behaved in a totally incompetent manner. They were hasty, greedy and negligent and they reaped the result. Believe it.
Mary, this is the type of reasoning and attitude that turns many off to you arguments. You do yourself a disservice making personal attacks. Back when I was reserving judgment about whether AR had something that worked, I was turned off by your attitude of superiority and irrelevant personal attacks (e.g., "religious nuts"). You conflate issues without really thinking them through. Probably there are more CF/Rossi supporters here who are irreligious than religious, but you don't see those of us who disagree calling them irreligious nuts prone to superstitious beliefs.(1)
You may be right about some things, but you shoot yourself in the foot with your hostility and sense of superiority (IMHO). I think you actually do care about people, and these things make you angry that people are being taking advantage of. I wish you would stick to that and quit trying to smear groups of people together that are unrelated, or at least try to realize you are not better than the people you disagree with.