Kevin O'Malley <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is a depressing exchange at FreeRepublic. That is a depressing
>> website.
>>
> ***Not normally.  It's right wing politics.  Most Vorts seem to be left
> wing.
>

I think that most Vorts are not left or right wing, and not liberal or
conservative. I think they are scientific and that puts them at the low end
of the "authoritarianism" scale, as defined by Prof. Altemeyer:

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/

In detail here:

http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer/drbob/TheAuthoritarians.pdf

A person can be politically liberal yet authoritarian, or very conservative
and authoritarian. Generally speaking conservative people tend to be on the
authoritarian end of the scale.

John Bockris was politically conservative but at the low end of the
authoritarianism scale. Most good scientists cluster at the low end,
because it encourages free inquiry and an open mind. Bockris had no
compunction about trying to do classical medieval style alchemy. He made no
apologies. He described in a matter-of-fact tone the way one of his
colleagues doing that ended up in prison. See p. 31:

http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BockrisJthehistory.pdf



>  I gave up on discussions of this nature years ago. I figure there is no
>> point to arguing with people who will not do their homework. They have no
>> interest in learning the truth.
>>
> ***I don't mind, for a while.  I see it as documenting the dialog.  But
> the reason why I started posting exchanges here is that the moderators at
> FR started pulling threads entirely, getting rid of ALL the dialog.
>

That is typical authoritarian behavior. As I said, people at both extreme
ends of the political spectrum tend to do things like that. It is good that
you have preserved this text.



>  The answer is: "That is incorrect. In some cases cold fusion cells have
>> produced 100 W or more, and they have boiled 10 to 50 ml of water
>> continuously for hours or in a few cases, for months."
>>
> ***Got links?  I'll post them.
>

This is the one I cited during my lunchtime talk at ICCF18:

Roulette, T., J. Roulette, and S. Pons. *Results of ICARUS 9 Experiments
Run at IMRA Europe.* in Sixth International Conference on Cold Fusion,
Progress in New Hydrogen Energy. 1996. Lake Toya, Hokkaido, Japan: New
Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, Tokyo Institute
of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.

http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RouletteTresultsofi.pdf

http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJlessonsfro.pdf

- Jed

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