a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net> wrote: Cnsider DoE's response. Their official policy is not to support LENR. > > My point is that we do not need them. If someone would do a convincing demo we would get plenty of money from private sources.
> I think you underestimate the group think of physicists. > > Even if 99.9% of physicists disagreed, we could do this with 0.1%. Heck, we could do this with one billionaire. Remember Szpak's dictum: scientists believe whatever you pay them to believe. If we get funding, opposition will melt away. In 1989 at the height of the controversy, many leading physicists who were excoriating cold fusion were secretly trying to get funding from EPRI to study cold fusion, according to Tom Passell. Opposition to cold fusion is a pocketbook issue. Physicists do not actually care whether an idea appears to defy the laws of physics or whether it can be tested or not. They raise these objections against cold fusion, but it is an act. An excuse. They do not object to string theory or multi-universe theories. What they care about is money and political power. In that regard, they are no different from people in other walks of life. - Jed
