Re: [Vo]:New more powerful image

2013-04-20 Thread John Berry
Eric, you bring up an interesting point. What is science anyway? I guess it could mean different things to different people. For some it might be about certain rules, the status quo, a belief system, a hierarchy, certain methods and prejudices, and dogma not unlike a religion. Not something

Re: [Vo]:New more powerful image

2013-04-20 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:29 PM, John Berry berry.joh...@gmail.com wrote: But it might be scientific, if scientific does not mean logical and truthful. But when I say scientific, I mean logical and truthful. What science is is something that smart people have spent their entire careers

Re: [Vo]:New more powerful image

2013-04-20 Thread MJ
That image should work at any zoom level? I'm using a 24 inches LCD monitor. Mark Jordan On 19-Apr-13 21:35, John Berry wrote: Mark, I have made a new one especially for you. Now this image deals heavily with colour so it may not work if your monitor or videocard is at fault.

Re: [Vo]:New more powerful image

2013-04-20 Thread John Berry
That image should work at any zoom level? I'm using a 24 inches LCD monitor. It should (provided it is scaled in a straightforward pixelized manner), but if you can try it on a different monitor, Jones reported that one gave stronger apparent results than another, it may be due to a vivid

[Vo]:NASA's cold fusion folly

2013-04-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is a typical attack on cold fusion. This is not newsworthy. I just wanted to point out that things like this are still widely published. As usual, the author has not done his homework. http://www.physicscentral.com/buzz/blog/index.cfm?postid=238052780327676025 - Jed

Re: [Vo]:NASA's cold fusion folly

2013-04-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Oullette joined in the attack: https://plus.google.com/105473622219622697310/posts/KdbdV5yAmRT - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Appeal to the Professors

2013-04-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
My guess is that these professors do not exist. I find it hard to believe they have cut off all contact with Rossi, or he has cut off contact with them. As I said, he tends to micromanage things. Perhaps he made this up, or it is a garbled version of reality. Perhaps 11 professors expressed

RE: [Vo]:Appeal to the Professors

2013-04-20 Thread Jones Beene
From: Jed Rothwell My guess is that these professors do not exist. I find it hard to believe they have cut off all contact with Rossi, or he has cut off contact with them. As I said, he tends to micromanage thingsPerhaps he made this up, or it is a garbled

Re: [Vo]:Appeal to the Professors

2013-04-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: An article on the Swedish blog site Osunt is reported on E-Cat World about the rumor that there has actually been new testing going on at the Svedberg Laboratory at Uppsala University in Sweden... Interesting. Do you think it is true? I am not

Re: [Vo]:Appeal to the Professors

2013-04-20 Thread Eric Walker
I think the more suitable analogy is to Heart of Darkness. We are Marlow, and Rossi is Kurtz. Eric On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I feel a bit like Adm. Nagumo in the middle of the Battle of Midway. He was deluged with intelligence sightings of the

Re: [Vo]:Placebo effect getting stronger

2013-04-20 Thread James Bowery
Its not that complicated. Jed suggested the appropriate control for placebo: No treatment at all. On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:20 PM, John Berry berry.joh...@gmail.com wrote: This is obviously a complex issue. But I think that strong belief as with hypnosis and other suggestions can't be

Re: [Vo]:Appeal to the Professors

2013-04-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: I think the more suitable analogy is to Heart of Darkness. We are Marlow, and Rossi is Kurtz. That works too. What I find mystifying about Rossi and Russ George alike is that they do not need to exaggerate. They have both made important contributions.

Re: [Vo]:NASA's cold fusion folly

2013-04-20 Thread Ruby
The scrambled She has posted on http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2013/04/20/physics-week-in-review-april-20-2013/ On 4/20/13 6:57 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Oullette joined in the attack: https://plus.google.com/105473622219622697310/posts/KdbdV5yAmRT - Jed --

[Vo]:A Wash Cloth in Space

2013-04-20 Thread Terry Blanton
http://boingboing.net/2013/04/18/what-happens-when-you-wring-ou.html For hand towels, astronauts get those little vacuum-packed pucks that you kind of have to unravel into a towel. But what happens when you actually put the towels to use? Two Nova Scotia high school students, Kendra Lemke and

Re: [Vo]:Placebo effect getting stronger

2013-04-20 Thread Jack Cole
James brings up important points with respect to hypnosis and the mind/body relationship. No treatment controls have been performed in many studies--most often through the use of wait list controls. In other words, one group is on a waiting list to begin the treatment, and this is compared to

Re: [Vo]:NASA's cold fusion folly

2013-04-20 Thread Harry Veeder
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a typical attack on cold fusion. This is not newsworthy. I just wanted to point out that things like this are still widely published. As usual, the author has not done his homework.

Re: [Vo]:Placebo effect probably does not exist

2013-04-20 Thread Harry Veeder
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: That is, an effect in which a prognosis improves because the patients think they are being treated when they are actually taking by fake medicine (something with no

RE: [Vo]:NASA's cold fusion folly

2013-04-20 Thread Jones Beene
LOL From: Ruby The scrambled She

[Vo]:NASA screws up bad.

2013-04-20 Thread Axil Axil
NASA has screwed up bad. They have embraced both the Widom-Larsen (W-L) theory and polaritons in the same framework. They are incompatible. In the NASA LENR patent as follows: “A method for producing heavy electrons is based on a material system that includes an electrically-conductive material

Re: [Vo]:Is the Evidence for Psychokinesis really just a publication bias?

2013-04-20 Thread Harry Veeder
Here is his follow up paper in response to comments on his first paper. In the eye of the beholder: Reply to Wilson and Shadish (2006) and Radin, Nelson, Dobyns, and Houtkooper (2006)

Re: [Vo]:NASA screws up bad.

2013-04-20 Thread Axil Axil
http://crystalchannelers.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/new-science-the-widom-larsen-low-energy-nuclear-reactions-lenr-theory/ WL has gone with Surface Plasmon Polariton (SPP) electrons. This is a mistake,they cannot do this because of the lack of energy density in the SPP, IMHO. The WL theory must