@ sigmoidal,
He had no evidence, he was just speculating - he was trying to rule out some bigger plot to harm LENR credibility generally, and doing so to alert the community of LENR support to a possible concern.
In his emails to Vortex, Krivit feared that it was an initiative against the Ni-H approach only, not against the LENR in general, because he was a strong supporter of Piantelli. So it appears as an internal dispute inside the LENR field between the PdD and NiH approaches, or even more restricted to the Focardi and Piantelli groups.
Anyway when I say "Krivit's allusions" I'm not referring the speculative allusions you mentioned, but to factual allusions, ie allusions to facts, not intentions. It's an evident fact that since the JoNP appeared on the web, in March 2010, the site had a link to a Board of Advisers (BoA), aimed to give it a certain level of scientific credibility. It's another evident fact the second adviser in the list was a professor of the DoD, and that this affiliation was explicitly exhibited.
In addition to these two evident facts, Krivit alluded to two other facts. In the first mail to Vortex he alluded that the DoD member in the BoA could have represented the position of the entire Department. The second and more important factual allusion, at the end of the second mail to Vortex, is that the site of JoNP could have been registered by this same DoD representative. If true, this fact has huge consequences on the interpretation of the entire Ecat story.
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The best evidence that this was just a passing idea for him is from Krivit himself in the 2016 summary he wrote (which you cited), which says nothing about some conspiratorial plot by others (like the DoD or anyone else) to discredit LENR,
As already said, this was not his real concern in March 2010. Anyway, the previous factual allusions of him were not passing ideas. He substantially confirmed them in January 2011, in the post titled "Rossi and Focardi Energy Amplifier: Reality or Scam?".
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But I have a suggestion for you if you haven't already done this: write Krivit and ask him …
I already did it, last year, on ecatnews.com. Unfortunately this site is no more available on internet, so I have to post the following jpeg with the screenshots of a few comments taken from an old page: http://i.imgur.com/yoshHoI.jpg
In April 2016, Krivit was regularly commenting on ecatnews. When MY posted the link to the last Macy's article, I replied posing a couple of questions. After a few minutes Krivit posted this comment:
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From http://ecatnews.com/?p=2686&cpage=4#comments [no more available on the web]
Steven B. Krivit
April 29, 2016 at 11:50 pm
Melich’s name appears 11 times here. Marianne is here too.
http://newenergytimes.com/v2/s…iECat/RossiTimeline.shtml
It may answer some questions.
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The day after, MY and I asked for some more clarifications, but we got no answer, and Krivit abandoned the thread for a while.
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… your notion, based on his email rant, regarding some covert 'board of directors' of JoNP exists and is coordinating some sort of nefarious plot where Rossi is a mere tool for their ultimate aim to tarnish LENR research.
This is not my notion. I'm not talking about a "covert" board of directors, but about the "manifest" Board of Advisers. Nor I think that the Ecat affair was aimed to tarnish LENR research. Maybe the opposite, as its developments suggest.
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As a PR 'genius', Rossi knows he has a credibility problem, so he's doing what he can to try to increase his credibility. And given the depths of his credibility problem, this is not an easy task! I'm having difficulty understanding why this isn't obvious to you, …
Why you say this? It's glaring obvious also to me. I showed you that it was obvious also for the people who were in close touch with him, and that, as alluded by Krivit, could have registered the site of the JoNP.
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why you are fixated on Krivit's speculative rant made over 7 years ago. Krivit isn't fixated on it at all, so does it really make sense for you to be?
Everybody here has his own position. Mine is that it's not possible to draw any conclusion on the nature of this saga until the questions raised by Krivit about the JoNP remain unanswered. Why my position should be considered a fixation? Only because it doesn't fit with the bipolar debate pro/cons Rossi/IH which dominates here?
As for Krivit, he considered since 2010 the 2nd BoA member of the JoNP a key player in this story. He confirmed this "fixation", as you call it, throughout the years up to his recent November 2016 post, we already mentioned, where he underlined his role in promoting in every way the Ecat initiative.