Bolgna, Italy—is that a joke? If not, oh the irony.
The University of Bologna is one of the oldest and most prestigious in Europe. Not that this proves anything, but no, it’s no joke. The list of attendees at the Oct. 6 event is impressive (although I note it lacks Drs. Essen and Kullander, and the Nobel laureate Dr. Josephson). If the E-cat is not real it either has a really big conspiracy involving many PhD physicists, or those same physicists are less competent than a random assembly of anonymous online skeptics. (Which is conceivable, but I wouldn’t presume that way.)