[Gratia]

I watched 90% of the symposium. The packets were supposed to be the subject, but were not. That has never been explained, as far as I know.

The symposium was a communications mess. It was way over-hyped by people like Ron Watson, whose breathless pronouncements have never panned out. The entire presentation lacked coherence except for certain short segments (Clements etc).

The mathematical evidence was quite convincing to me. The final numbers were necessarily fraudulent, according to the math. But the math stuff has gone nowhere, and the packet stuff has disappeared.

[Observator]

Great points. I similarly followed it closely, and I agree with you the most interesting thing to come out was the statistical analysis.

Sadly, I think Mike got taken for a ride with Ron Watkins. That guy has a history of scams. I was skeptical going in since - if Mike had the data - why not publish it beforehand? Either he didn't really, or he wanted to detonate a bomb when he dropped it. Since nothing was ever delivered, that leaves just one possibility.