Given a moment to reflect on ALL of the circumstances...DUH... one should always "follow the buck" first and ask questions later.
> Even so, it was a big mistake, and typical mainstream > arrogance, that in all the publicity that Taleyarkhan > recieved (riding on the ORNL coat-tails) that he did not > credit nor even mention the extraordinary contributions to > the field of sonfusion from former vortex contributor Ross > Tessien, founder of Impulse Devices, and Dr. Gaitan the > chief scientist (nor did he mention Knuke either, but should > have !). Should have mentioned Russ George also, as Ed suggests... and... I forgot to mention that since incorporation, IDI has received over 20 patents and expects even more. "Our patent attorneys are Townsend & Townsend in San Francisco, one of the nation's best patent law firms," Tessien told one writer. Yup. They are probably THE best, not one of the best, and that is also probably why they have either threatened litigation or asked for a cease and desist order against ORNL, and why ORNL, which has its own hefty staff of IP professionals, does not, and will not, acknowledge the prior art (until a court order, or some settlement, that is).... one cannot imagine that there is no possibility of infringement here with this many patents floating around. All this high level legal maneuvering and yet... Bob Park thinks it is still pathological science, with no basis in reality... Follow the Buck, Bob... Jones BTW is it for certain that this show is a "put-down"? The Beeb is usually rather circumspect about that kind of thing.
