Re: [Vo]:Scientific American censors discussion of cold fusion, including statements by its own editors
Ouellette closed the discussion section of the article. (At least, she closed it to me.) I was going to tell her I summarized our discussion in the news item. - Jed
Re: [Vo]:Scientific American censors discussion of cold fusion, including statements by its own editors
She did close and George end up defending cold fusion! 2012/10/31 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Ouellette closed the discussion section of the article. (At least, she closed it to me.) I was going to tell her I summarized our discussion in the news item. - Jed -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
RE: [Vo]:Scientific American censors discussion of cold fusion, including statements by its own editors
The county I live in (Marin Co. CA) is not large in population - but does have 18 branch libraries with magazine sections. I suspect that all of them subscribe to Sci-Am. I am going to write to the head Librarian to request cancelation of all subscriptions to Sci-Am except for one or two to archive. I will cc to the mag. editors. The argument for cancellation is of course not based upon one ignorant blogger's uneducated comments, nor the lack of a fair appraisal of the science (we expect that). Instead the argument for cancellation is based on the magazine's implicit decision at the editorial level to allow selective censorship of responses.. I doubt that this effort will succeed - but I encourage everyone else on Vortex - who is in a locale that values freedom of speech, and has lots of libraries with Sci-Am subscriptions g to do likewise. Jones From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 7:40 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:Scientific American censors discussion of cold fusion, including statements by its own editors LENR-CANR news item: http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/?p=1373
Re: [Vo]:Scientific American censors discussion of cold fusion, including statements by its own editors
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: I am going to write to the head Librarian to request cancelation of all subscriptions to Sci-Am except for one or two to archive. I will cc to the mag. editors. I think that is going too far! They are not the only ones attacking cold fusion, after all. By the way, in my news item I added handy hyperlinks to my #2 message, in case you are wondering who I had in mind at the PPPL. It is astounding that Ouellette thinks she knows so much more than the Chairman of the AEC and these others. She is arrogant. Pride goes before the fall. I would say this column is a gift to us, except that it is very well written. McKubre pointed that out. He suspects it is a concerted effort by several leading members of the opposition. - Jed
Re: [Vo]:Scientific American censors discussion of cold fusion, including statements by its own editors
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: She is arrogant. Pride goes before the fall. I would say this column is a gift to us, except that it is very well written. McKubre pointed that out. He suspects it is a concerted effort by several leading members of the opposition. This is why I refer to her as a pawn and wonder what was the point of this sacrifice. Is it really just to immunize SciAm's herd of zombies against the heresy* represented by the film The Believers? *The heresy of The Believers being, of course, that it didn't, in the mode of the faithful and pious pseudoskeptic, viciously attack genuine skeptics.
Re: [Vo]:Scientific American censors discussion of cold fusion, including statements by its own editors
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: McKubre pointed that out. He suspects it is a concerted effort by several leading members of the opposition. This is why I refer to her as a pawn and wonder what was the point of this sacrifice. This will not hurt her. Even if cold fusion triumphs, people will forget that she played a minor role in opposing it. People such as Garwin and and Frank Close may be held to account, but not her. No matter what happens, many of the people who opposed cold fusion will continue to play a major role in the scientific establishment. There are not enough supporters to replace them. In his 1940 cabinet, Churchill kept on many of Chamberlain's appointees. He later explained: If one were dependent on the people who had been right in the last few years, what a tiny handful one would have to depend on. I expect that Garwin, Close and the others will do fine. They will soon modestly accept credit for bringing cold fusion to the world. - Jed
