[Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Ouellette un-erased the comment by Storms, and added: With all due respect to Dr. Storms, I stand by my post. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2012/10/29/genie-in-a-bottle-the-case-against-cold-fusion/#comment-461 Perhaps she restored this in response to my last

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Ouellette explained: FYI, there have been some technical problems with the commenting system, but as I announced at the start of the post, I am also moderating the comment thread heavily — because every time anyone criticizes cold fusion/low-temp nuclear reactions, the same people descend upon

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread James Bowery
The Scientific American has been, for at least 25 years, little more than The Scientific Democrat. In other words, it is politics posing as science. BTW: I was an adviser to Dukakis's platform committee in 88' and I first used the term The Scientific Democrat around that time, the bias was so

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Ouellette continues to erase messages as fast as I can write them. She erased my message linking to the comments made by Sci. Am. editors, as I knew she would. She will allow only skeptical attacks; no rebuttals or defense. Here is a response I wrote to Cude, which I expect will be erased

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: The Scientific American has been, for at least 25 years, little more than The Scientific Democrat. In other words, it is politics posing as science. Let's not suggest that Democrats are more likely to politicize science than Republicans. The Republicans

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread James Bowery
I had hoped to head off your erroneous suggestion by including my Democratic affiliation at the time I first notice SciAm's political bias. Your comment is true but suggests that I was directing my comment toward Democrats rather than toward Scientific American's political bias toward the

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Alan Fletcher
At 03:53 PM 10/30/2012, Jed Rothwell wrote: Wow! Mary Y relays your post !! http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2012/10/29/genie-in-a-bottle-the-case-against-cold-fusion/#comment-473 Jed Rothwell writes on another forum that he thinks he's being censored so I will

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Rob Dingemans
Hi, Just a thought, what would happen if you would write about the same facts but than everything in the opposite sense? A kind of reverse psychology method. Kind regards, Rob

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread James Bowery
Ah, I now see Ouelette's article was prompted by the release of the film The Believers. Sorry, but when I see SciAm cited, I find myself unmotivated to read the article. On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:04 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: I had hoped to head off your erroneous suggestion by

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread James Bowery
To which I responded: Not that I can speak for Robert Park, but it is not that he is bragging that he knows nothing, but rather that he knows who to listen to. Indeed, this is virtually the entire history of the “cold fusion” fiasco including the early 1990 rejection by the US editorial staff of

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: Wow! Mary Y relays your post !! http://blogs.**scientificamerican.com/** cocktail-party-physics/2012/**10/29/genie-in-a-bottle-the-**

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: To which I responded: Not that I can speak for Robert Park, but it is not that he is bragging that he knows nothing, but rather that he knows who to listen to. Well said! Where did you write this? At the Sci. Am. site? I don't see it. I guess she

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
This whole thing is comical. Ouellette first censored a message from me pointing to a statement from *the editor of her own magazine*. She will not allow a discussion of Sci. Am.'s own editors' point of view! Then she turned around and allowed a skeptic to post a copy of my message. (So far,

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Ah, Ouellette deleted Yugo's copy as well. Good grief! - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
For the record, Ouellette erased this one too: Cude wrote: “I’m not aware of a single major university that has expressed the opinion that evidence for the claims of PF is overwhelming.” Professors at universities and at other institutions express that opinion. For example, the Chairman of

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread James Bowery
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: To which I responded: Not that I can speak for Robert Park, but it is not that he is bragging that he knows nothing, but rather that he knows who to listen to. Well said!

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Chuck Sites
What a bunch of horse shit. I'm so sorry I went to follow up, and it's like being a Dem shouted down at a Tea party rally. Example quote: Alas, those are ideal conditions for crackpots to flourish. I'm not much of a debater, but what do you say to that? If you ever study logic, this statement