ROGER ANDERTON <r.j.ander...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> sounded like conspiracy theory. > What sounded like a conspiracy theory? What do you refer to? As I said, not everything that sounds like a conspiracy theory, is a conspiracy theory. Not everything that sounds implausible is false. The Titanic disaster was caused by a whole series of unlikely events that, taken together, sound like a third-rate pot-boiler disaster movie. Quite unbelievable. Too much sulphur in the metal; the captain ignoring radio warnings of ice; not enough lifeboats; a ship nearby ignoring distress rockets and not waking up the radio operator . . . it is a long list. If even one of the causes had been missing, no one would have died. It sounds extremely improbable, but it happened. > As for cold fusion - > > > Criticism of cold fusion claims generally take one of two forms: either > pointing out the theoretical implausibility that fusion reactions have > occurred in electrolysis setups or criticizing the excess heat measurements > as being spurious, erroneous, or due to poor methodology or controls. There > are a couple of reasons why known fusion reactions are an unlikely > explanation for the excess heat and associated cold fusion claims. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion > The first sentence is correct and at the same time, idiotic. Theoretical implausibility is never a valid reason to reject replicated, high-sigma experimental results. That violates the scientific method. There are no actual critiques of the excess heat measurements, but only stupid, groundless assertions by people who do not know the difference between power and energy, such as Morrison and Taubes. See p. 18 and p. 27: https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJreviewofth.pdf See also: https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Fleischmanreplytothe.pdf That is the best -- and only -- skeptical experimental "critique" there is. There are no others. The second sentence is bullshit. There are no valid "reasons why known fusion reactions are an unlikely explanation for the excess heat and associated cold fusion claims." Not a couple. Not one. None.
