Akira Shirakawa <[email protected]> wrote:
> Partially unrelated, but by the amount of comments, shares and facebook > likes, I think this article is more popular than the the one on Forbes: > http://www.extremetech.com/**extreme/156393-cold-fusion-** > reactor-independently-**verified-has-10000-times-the-** > energy-density-of-gas<http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/156393-cold-fusion-reactor-independently-verified-has-10000-times-the-energy-density-of-gas> Maybe there are more comments because people find the Disqus interface easier to use than Forbes'. It allows corrections, and a popularity vote. It is widely used these days. We recently discussed here what percent of academic scientists believe cold fusion is real. The only way to find out would be to conduct a poll. You might get a sense of it by counting up the comments at places like this. I think the CBS article associated with the "60 Minutes" would be a better sample. The problem is, these are self-selected respondents, so the sample is skewed. You could perhaps look for people who appear to be academic scientists but even that would be distorted. I doubt there is any way to establish the real numbers, other than a poll. There is someone named "goat" something-or-other who writes incendiary comments attacking cold fusion in various forums. It seems like an obsession. He uses many obscenities and ad hominem attacks. He and the people at Wikipedia need to get a life. - Jed
