We went through this on the last thread. We both agree that the Nobel Peace Prize is a joke. But the Nobel prizes in physics & other hard sciences are not a joke. Unless you want to claim that they are a joke in the hard sciences.
Basically, if a guy gets a Nobel prize in the hard sciences, he’s a smart cookie in that particular field.
Well Kevmo, There are PHD Nobel prize winners that have been bilked out of their life savings, a PHD Nobel winner doesn’t mean following them off a cliff is advisable.
And Kevmo, you are so hot to trot for Rossi, you realize this is an invitation posted on a blog and nothing more?
Right?
No date, we don’t even know if they set a day that they are both available on. We don’t know if the guy is going to agree to the terms, nothing...
Yet you breathless report that he posted an invitation on the blog...
hey, maybe next time he will invite Bill Gates, President Obama, or how bout Stephen Hawking? I bet there will be a hundred stories posted then.
Several counterexamples:
Kary Mullis (polymerase chain reaction) but denies that HIV causes AIDS.
John Van Vleck (magnetism) denies magnetic monopoles but IIRC relativistic quantum (P.A.M. Dirac) allows for them. (WTF?)
The IPCC panel (chapter on Himalayan glaciers melting not based on peer review but on WWF, itself apparently cribbed from a newspaper article).
Paul Krugman (not a science but he's not much of a Nobelist either, he got eviscerated in public by Iowahawk.
Cheers!