LENR should breakup into two independent sects, the Rossi sect and the Rothwell sect. Each of these sects should ignore the other.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence <sa...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > On 09/16/2016 03:36 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > >> >> A researcher with a good experiment should contact I.H. They might fund >> the research. No one else will. No government will. >> > > Once burned twice shy. > > Do you really think I.H. would take another flier on cold fusion at this > point? > > Rossi did a great job. He has totally nuked the chances of CF to go > anywhere for a long, long time to come. Between getting egg on a lot of > people's faces, costing some people a lot of money, and making some CF > experts look like idiots for not seeing through him sooner (which should > have surprised nobody -- con man versus scientists, con man usually wins), > whatever aura of respectability the field might have had has gone in the > dumper at this point. > > Anyhow that's my sad opinion on the situation.... :-( > >
