this "hierarchy of XXX" (race, nations, science, labs) seems to be a strong factor in the dismissal of cold fusion, and by many skeptics, maybe innocently parroting, but probably comfortably applying inner hierarchy of people and organizations.
I was shocked to see that results from India, China, Japan, did not increase the credibility of cold fusion experiments, not less tha from CEA done by engineers, by provincial US universities, and even by military labs... same for chemist or engineers results, rejected facing negative results from physicist. for me, initiated about groupthink and systemic fraud by finance and Internet bubble, it is evident that a variety of profession, nationality, type of organization (private, public, military, big , small) increase the credibility of replication claims. Motives are different, groupthink follow different hierarchies, money flow differently, risk, sanctions, retribution are differents, so like making various calorimetry, testing in various context is a good cross-checking... This rejection of varietry as a source of quality, make me think about the absurd demand that all replication be "exact", as I know that exact replication replicate exactly the errors... and that in unknow phenomenons, errors are more reliable than chaotic phenomenon. Huizenga if I remind ell explained the tritium finding by a geography of assumed fraud. in a way the high impact journal supremacy is of the same kind... facing that it seems that Europe decided to align slowly (BAAA was teporary positive while AAAA bashed F&P, but inally aligned to the US consensus). Today France, and EU is fully US-aligned (US Ivy league I mean), despite huge local results. Asia decided to fly under the radar, and neither stop nor talk of it. maybe is that tragedy not caused by a monolithic groupthink, but by a hierarchical US Ivy League physicist groupthink, that according to Benabou theory trickle down the various hiearchy or racism I discuss here... http://www.princeton.edu/~rbenabou/papers/Groupthink%20IOM%202012_07_02%20BW.pdf from physicist to chemist to engineers... from US to europe to asia from high impact journal to low impact regional letters from Nobel to lab boss to professors to wiki/forum to students what seems reported here is tha the pathology started at the heard of Manhattan project pantheon, from an informal hate of change in the Elite, materialized by few uninfluential servant of the Lords for provided what was asked, and did the dirty job. did I understand well the situation from my naive point of view based on the few reports I analysed? 2014-06-24 15:58 GMT+02:00 Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>: > Morrison published a series of news letters about cold fusion: > > Morrison Cold Fusion Update No. 1, 2, 3 . . . > > CFU 01.txt . . . > > The earliest one I have on my disk is #6. It is completely negative, and > full of nonsense. As far as I know, the earlier ones were too. > > Morrison was a racist, by my standards. Before cold fusion emerged he went > around giving lectures about how only Northern Europeans can do science. > After cold fusion began he packaged this idea into what he called the > "regionalization of results" theory, which is that people from Southern > Europe, India, Asia and Africa are genetically incapable of doing > calorimetry so their results are wrong. > > Morrison himself was incapable of doing simple arithmetic. See: > > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Fleischmanreplytothe.pdf > > Morrison was, as the British say, a piece of work. Meaning "vile." > > - Jed > >
