Sifferkoll : Andrea Rossi, an Edisonian Inventor or a Scammer?

Sifferköll on his pblob Just published an interesting article about Andrea Rossi and his opponents, the skeptics and most of scientific community.

His analysis started to explain the man hunt he observed on Swedish Public Radio, SR.

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The Swedish scientists and engineers from KTH, Uppsala University, Vattenfall and Elforsk were also thoroughly discredited by SR. And they performed this man hunt using mainly ad-hominem type arguments, ignoring the results from numerous tests. For them, positive testresult was more or less equal to proof of scam… and everyone holding a different opinion was either incompetent or an assistant scammer in their view.

This irrational behavior, so naïve, raised him a key question that we probably share, some of us suspecting an answer....

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For me, this is mind boggling. How is it possible for otherwise rational and logical scientists and journalists to not even consider the possibility of Andrea Rossi being on to something new, without even looking?

And he propose an analysis based on the personality gap between Andrea Rossi, of the "inventor" personality and the scientific community full of competent "inspector".
He base his reasoning on few psychology framework that I know from business psychology and management, "MTBI Personality Test" (the test may reveal some insight), the Four Room Of Changes...

It explains why the Inspectors focus on details and miss the important facts, but also why Rossi can achieve the impossible and solve unknow problems, but also why he make so lose test...
the "Inspectors" will have their time, and maybe is it what is happening with the Swedish testers.

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This reasoning could be used the other way around as well, since inventors are equally useless at tasks where the inspectors thrive.

I believe that these models can give some light to the behaviour of Rossi when it comes to setting up experiments and testing. He’s already building the next model in his head. Demonstrations, thorough scientific experiments and boring comments from all the inspectors, are only a pain in the ass for him. Exactly in the same way as the inspectors feel threatened when their belief system of facts gets challenged by a reactor build in a garage.

He also give his vision of the test to come. i don't know if it is a summary of what is said on internet, some Swedish buzz or insider data.

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Soon we will probably know a little bit more. The group of scientists from Uppsala and KTH has expanded with more scientists from other countries and the second independent test is about to get published early autumn. The test has been going on for months on neutral premises in Lugano, Switzerland with even more thorough measurements than the May 2013 test. It has even been rumoured that an isotope analysis have been made on samples from these tests at several universities in Sweden very recently.