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(Quote from THHuxleynew)

I'm neither pro-Rossi nor anti-Rossi. I am pro-LENR. For a couple months back in 2011, I was pro-Rossi but his blatant mistruths made me stop posting "Rossi says" articles and stick to his own way of seeing if he was adding…

(Quote from THHuxleynew)

This is not a personal comment. Shanahan made various claims. Scientists responded to his claims in the paper I pointed to, and in various other papers. They showed that his arguments violate theory and there is no experimental…

That is worse than I thought. 46% take a fundamentalist literal view of 2500 year old Judaic texts. And the trend is towards more fundamentalism (or else, I suppose possible, extreme ignorance).

(Quote from interested observer)

I do not use the term to mean that. In the case of Shanahan, I mean someone who proposes theories or hypotheses that violate elementary laws of physics, are physically impossible & absurd, and that experiments have shown…

For people unaware of the context of this discussion, let me point out that Shananan is a crackpot and his claims were disproved years ago. See:

http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MarwanJanewlookat.pdf

(Quote from interested observer)

Where? The ultraskeptical crowd doesn't accept that the F&P AHE has EVER been replicated, even though there's 153 peer reviewed replications listed by Jed/Britz.

How many times has the Pons-Fleischmann Anomalous…

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Alan - I think it is very helpful to judge arguments on their merit - not inferred character of the arguer. For example, were Rossi to put forward proper arguments the fact that he continually lies would not, were they good…

changing of scale, with passion, people can do big acts as Lone Wolf.
Often there is a network, but it is more a community, like we are, than structured military organization.
This is how thing seems to work recently with Internet, with many subjects.…

By voluntary I meant 'acts performed without external inducement,' Such inducements might include threats, money or promises of future benefits.

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Can't see how astroturfing would be anything but voluntary. Perhaps Alan meant "unpaid"

it is hard to distinguish between sincere biased/convinced supporters and paid professional.
My bet is that the worst tactics are amateur.
As Milgram experiment have shown, even money cannot buy the worst behaviors, but you can do it for free.

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I didn't know we had anti-Rossi activists.... just pro IH and Pro LENR researchers and a very few anti-IH activists left.

(Quote from Roseland67)

None of these guys thought to bring their own thermometer. Jed Rothwell was invited to a Rossi demo, and when Rossi saw that he was going to bring his own tools he uninvited Jed. I find it incredible that over these last 8…

(Quote from THHuxleynew)

It doesn't matter where or when the row started for purposes of this particular discussion. The claim is that if Rossi had what IH wanted, they could just pay him the $89 Mil and they could get moving on LENR again. That ain't…

Shane D.

There is growing awareness amongst some of those in the LENR field that the years since '89 spent hanging on the coat-tails of academia and striving for respectability via peer-reviewed publication have ended in failure when measured by…

Epimetheus . All of the above.

There was a lot of gossip, but very little about Rossi. Also had a good chat with Dewey Weaver after I (somewhat) cornered him in the bar. I told him there was no need to apologise for his more intemperate posts, because I was quite sure he never wrote…

(Quote from Shane D.)

This is the way usual people takes lesson.

a VC, take the lesson as statistic... as warning to always consider thing can fail.

(Quote from SSC)

Again with this house claim which ele already tried to BS through. Where is the evidence that they built houses?

It is clear that they bought an already polluted site with the intention of remediating it and the job was much bigger than…

It is funny to hear people who accuse experiments like Miles, Storms, McKubre, of no replication while there is hundreds of replication in peer reviewed papers... beside regular replication by ENEA , SKINR, NRL, and Storms.

of course no replication…