Zell, Chris wrote:
I wonder about Paul Brown. He warned everyone he was being threatened,
discontinued his work - then re-started it later and died in an
"accident" soon after.
Indeed, the Brown case seems a lot more serious to me.
On the other hand, as I recall Brown was known for driving cars
recklessly at high speed. Who knows what to make of it?
I think the lesson for the guy who comes up with a practical cold
fusion reactor is: keep no secrets. Publish everything. If thousands
of experts worldwide know what you have done and how to replicate,
because you distributed papers worldwide via the Internet, there is
no point to killing you or trying to suppress your work. This
strategy is described in the thriller movie "Three days of the
Condor." This movie centers around a high-level U.S. government
conspiracy to invade an oil-rich country in the Middle East on false
pretenses. Needless to say, this is a ridiculous & contrived fantasy
-- such things could not happen in real life! -- but we can still
learn from it.
- Jed
