This Champion fellow has had a troublesome past,
reall.org
"More recently, some of his colleagues are saying that lack of
objectivity is back. According to the articles, Bockris received a
call from Joe Champion, who said he could turn other metals into
silver and gold. Champion even produced an investor who offered a
$200,000 gift to the university to support the research.
Champion was in and out of Bockris' lab for a little while as an
unpaid "guest worker", and instructed two of Bockris'postdocs in the
techniques. One was a "total failure." The other, burning a mixture of
potassium nitrate (a component of gunpowder), carbon, and salts in a
coffee can, however, produced measurable amounts of gold. But when
Champion left, the experiment could not be duplicated (how similar is
this to "psychic" experiments?). Ramesh Bhardwaj, a former associate
research assistant for Bockris, believes the "successful" experiments
were faked,according to Newsweek.
Then, according to Newsweek, Champion was jailed in Phoenix,
Arizona, on felony-theft charges in an unrelated case. And in May, the
investor was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with
selling $7.8 million in fraudulent and unregistered securities."
I can see why Naxos doesn't like the names of Austin Lett and Matt
Walters to be shown as directors for a company that has Joe Champion
listed as director of research.
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