Ascolii, I would never trust any assessment from anybody who has ever defended Rossi’s e-cat claims.
This guys have shown that their judgement is ill-affected by “wishful thinking”.
Or would you trust a financial adviser who got once fooled by a Nigerian scammer?
Sorry, I don't understand if you are in ironic mode or not. In any case, your comment gives me the opportunity to better clarify my position on this issue.
JR has been by large the major public defendant of the Ecat results, not of Rossi as a person. This is an important distinction, to keep always in mind. Moreover, he vehemently defended those incredible results not on the basis of Rossi's claims, but on the basis of the evaluations made by authoritative people in the field. More specifically, his judgments were based on the assessments of several European academicians for the tests performed in Europe since 2011 (1), and on those expressed by several American experts for the tests previously carried out in the US (2).
As for the trustworthy of his statements, I think that he is one of the most sincere protagonist of the CF/LENR community. He is such sincere, that he openly declares the basic rules of his communication strategy. But in this way he become as much puzzling as the man who says "In this village we are all liars". If you trust that man, you can't trust him anymore!
Being more specific (otherwise JR jumps in, complaining that I'm inventing imaginary things about him), he wrote in 2012 (3) something similar to the above statement of the village's man: "One of the cardinal rules of being a good military leader or a good politician is to make do with what you have, and to find a way to win by subterfuge if you do not have a material or strategic advantage. Cold fusion is very much a political fight, so we should take lessons from these disciplines."
After such a sincere declaration, should I always believe in what he says?
(1) https://www.lenr-forum.com/for…D/?postID=29406#post29406
(2) Rossi-Blog Comment Discussion
(3) http://www.mail-archive.com/vo…@eskimo.com/msg73665.html