Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com> wrote: Just a practical question . (serious, I need a number) > is there any statistic about the ratio of physicist who think LENR is not > real? >
I do not think the question is meaningful. As Ed says, all discoveries start with only one person believing them (the discoverer). The only way to determine this would be with a public opinion poll. The only poll I know of was taken in Japan many years ago. It showed that roughly half of scientists and engineers believed there might be something to cold fusion. I have no idea what the numbers would be now. The 2004 DoE review panel was a kind of poll. In answer to Charge 2, 6 Yes, 10 No, 2 Don't know. However, as you see, the reasons given by the 10 who said No were ludicrous and would bring a failing grade in any high school science class. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/DOEusdepartme.pdf If you ran a poll, you would have to ask qualifying questions to make it meaningful. Start by asking: "Have you read 5 or more papers on cold fusion, including at least 3 written after 1989?" "Are you familiar with the work of Dr. M. McKubre?" Anyone who answers "No" to these has no knowledge of the subject, and no right to any opinion, positive or negative. I would disqualify them. Based on the audience at LENR-CANR I would say that most scientists and engineers who have read several papers agree that the effect is real. I cannot put an exact number on that. - Jed
