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- From: vnoninski@FSCVAX.FSC.MASS.EDU
- Subject: Re: S.Jones' posting of November 19
- Message-ID: <00963DE2.EFCA1560.29678@FSCVAX.FSC.MASS.EDU>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 06:41:32 GMT
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- Dear Colleagues,
-
- It seems that exactness in his statements is not of primary
- concern to S.Jones. For instance, on November 19 he writes:
-
- "I endeavored to correct my mistake immediately when I learned of
- it, twice before on the net (this is my third try with Dr.
- Noninski)".
-
- What does this statemen mean ?
-
- Correcting of his mistake was not such innocent an act
- as S.Jones would like to present it. He "endeavored to
- correct" the figures he posted only after he was shown and
- "learned" that these figures do not support his
- sensational "discovery" of Notoya's "mistake".
-
- Further, under the circumstances it would probably be more
- prudent for the author to restrain himself from
- statements like : "But the fact remains that much of the joule
- heating of the control cell occured outside the control cell, in
- the very thin lead wire ..." since it is not at all obvious
- that such a fact "remains". As noted, the measurements
- reported after the criticism contradict those reported
- before the criticism and this provides an obvious reason to
- suspect that the latter figures, reported from measurements,
- were in fact made up to sustain the initial claim for "mistake"
- in Notoya's cell.
-
- "Contributions" of this type, based on adjusting the data to
- support one's point at any rate, are the least needed for the
- discussions of scientific matters and particularly for the
- debate about the reality of the excess heat during electrolysis
- of H2O solutions with Ni cathodes, claimed by Fleischmann
- et al.
-
- In addition to reinforcing my conviction that S.Jones has
- deliberately adjusted the data, after my criticism (obviously the
- change of data was made to support his initial denouncement of
- Notoya's experiment), from his posting of November 19 I further
- learned with astonishment that he, admittedly, is ready to
- publish and make ultimate statements based on data that has not
- been critically analysed by him. It was enough for him to just
- hear some figures from some student and the moment he realized
- the figures fit his goals he rushed to publish them.
-
- How can one be certain that in other
- publications and statements of S.Jones the author is not
- similarly selective when choosing the "facts" he publishes ?
-
- Truly yours,
-
- Vesselin Noninski November 19, 1992
-
-