Nov. 18th 2004
Vortex,
It was a major disappointment that the untimely death of Dr. Eugene Mallove was barely mentioned and not memorialized at all in the opening remarks in the opening of the ICCF-11Conference by Biberian. Somehow Preparata deserved better at ICCF-8 and he died of natural causes. There is now an award medal in his likeness (Preparata) being given out at each Conference. Hagelstein received one at ICCF-11.
It is nothing new to me that the issue about concern of public exposure on ICCF presentations exists.
I had thought that these Conferences were openly open to the public and media. And that everybody would be desirous of such exposure. Especially since the believers of CF were bemoaning the lack of public support of pursuit of the phenomena in its various forms. But I found out different when I started to videotape the entire Conference beginning in 1995 at my own expense. Fortunately Fleischmann prevailed over opposition by Preparata (deceased) to my archiving the presentations. It was allowed with an understanding that the videotaping was for personal archival purposes without any public commercial distribution unless with permission of the organizers. This was fine with me. So it went for each ICCF with the issue being passed on within a narrow margin each time. It has had a cooling effect on enthusiasm (for scientists, not science). I did not record the ICCF-10 but fortunately Eugene Mallove did. I did not record the ICCF-11 for health reasons.
One other trivia: ISCMNS. I believe this stands for 'International Society for Condensed Matter Nuclear Studies'. I don't know who thought up the idea of a society for cold fusion studies but if necessary, wouldn't it be better to have an 'Interdisciplinary Society of Low Energy Nuclear Studies'? This would include the wide field of experimental results that have been reported over the years internationally. Except that is, if one of the purposes of ISCMNS is to narrow down the number of participants 'officially qualified and recognized' to be pursuing CF. Who knows?
-ak-
