XPost: sci.physics, alt.solar.thermal   
   From: rick@nowhere.com   
      
   "vaughn"  wrote in message   
   news:j8ushi$he4$1@dont-email.me...   
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   > "Morris Dovey"  wrote in message   
   > news:j8ujm6$tpe$2@speranza.aioe.org...   
   >> On 11/3/11 7:58 AM, vaughn wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> For me, the following quote from the article represents the bottom line:   
   >>> "...   
   >>> any extraordinary discovery requires extraordinary proof. ... the E-Cat   
   >>> must be   
   >>> verified by an independent study conducted by scientists who are allowed   
   >>> access   
   >>> to the machine's inner-workings."   
   >>   
   >> I must have a strange view of science - I'd be pretty happy with ordinary   
   >> proof and I'd be even happier to know that Rossi's claimed results had   
   >> been reproduced independently elsewhere on separate equipment - and I   
   >> wouldn't much care whether the folks who did that were scientists,   
   >> engineers, or taxi drivers. :-)   
   >   
   > OK, I take your point, but we are still a long way from that (lower)   
   > standard of proof; yet we don't need to be.  Rossi's stated excuse seems   
   > to be a desire to protect his industrial secrets. He doesn't want to give   
   > others access to the internals of his invention.   
      
   Seems to me that In some ways this is not dissimilar to that of the inventor   
   of 'Starlite', a world shattering breakthrough, or merely another time   
   waster looking for their 15 minutes of fame?   
      
      
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