I said nothing about his credibility at any level. What the witnesses said was that he was knowledgeable.
"You told me that because the anonymous engineer seemed to know what he was talking about, it didn't matter that we knew absolutely nothing about him."
There is a difference between "knowledgeable" and "credible". That is the point that seems to escape you.
Ahern and Zawodny are certainly knowledgeable. Due to their vested interest in their own attempts to patent aspects of CF, their credibility is at question.
But Rothwell is both knowledgeable AND credible. He probably cannot do the higher math to do theoretical work, as can Ahern and Zawodny, but he certainly knows enough about the experimental methodologies and previous experimental work garnered over MANY years to be able to judge whether a specific set of experiments is valid or, if invalid, how so. Heck, "I" couldn't do the theoretical physics aspect, but I have more than enough knowledge about the instrumentation and science to judge the validity or lack same of experimental results.
And NOBODY who is even the least bit knowledgeable about the past history of cold fusion makes ANY negative comments about Rothwell's personal integrity.
"You are a hypocrite."
Nope. Sorry. Just not agreeing with you. The simple fact is that there is NO evidence of fraud of any sort. Just speculation.
I said nothing about his credibility at any level. What the witnesses said was that he was knowledgeable.Yup, that's the difference.
You don't care about his credibility, aboveboard, colorable, conceivable, conclusive, creditable, dependable, determinative, honest, honest to God, imaginable, likely, plausible, possible, probable, probably, rational, reasonable, reliable, satisfactory, satisfying, seeming, sincere, solid, sound, straight, supposable, tenable, thinkable, trustworthy, trusty, up front, valid (to use all the synonyms you just had to stick into your post).
That says everything anyone needs to know about your beliefs regarding Rossi.