Jed Rothwell
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:49:48 -0700
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How can that be? SPWAR has detected high energy reactions from a cold fusion system.This is no small thing. Then the field dies.
I do not think the SPWAR results have been replicated to everyone's satisfaction yet. Certainly the Russians have doubts, and they are experts in CR-39. The issue is somewhat over my head.
Anyway, the field is dying because the researchers themselves are dying, and not being replaced by younger researchers. If you ask a skeptic why, he will say this is one of Langmuir's criteria for pathological science: "The ratio of supporters to critics rises to somewhere near 50% and then falls gradually into oblivion." If you ask me, I say: The field has been crushed by rabid academic politics, and the suppression of academic freedom.
I don't understand.
Come now. It isn't hard to understand. - Jed