Mon cher Alain, Wouldn't you have the kindness to make an EGO OUT guest editorial why not for NOEL, from these ideas a bit developed/ Peter
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Alain Sepeda <[email protected]> wrote: > Clearly psychology of groups, epistemology, sociology, ethnology of > science, will consider Cold Fusion fiasco as a key event in history, like > the story of germs, og geocentrisms, of Malthusianism, of creationism, and > of some current stories (maybe correlated). > > If you (re-)read the book "Excess Heat" by Charles Beaudette, you will > clearly see that logic, epistemology, psychology, are key competence to > unlock the truth there. > The importance of Baltimore, the reputation trap, the anti-Popperian love > of theory, the tribe battles, the hierarchy in sciences (Nuclear > Physics>Theretical Physics> Material > physics>chemistry>electrchemistry>biochemistry>biology, low compexity->> > high complexity), are phenomenon to consider in a human science perspective. > > I always cite Roland Benabou because his theory of Groupthink explains the > "trap" in the "reputation trap", and because it explains the increase of > violence when evidence grows against the consensus. > > The notion of Black Swan is interesting but hid the concept of "Pink > Flamingo" more appropriate to Cold Fusion... > when something is seen since long (not a black swan) but not considered > (not white swan) because of huge cognitive opposition and associate > prejudices. > > Then I remember the work of Kuhn which explained that it happens all the > time and that history is rewritten by the losers who say the mainstream > science did the job perfectly, despite the annoyance of few irresponsible > maverick. > > So it is hopeless... > > 2015-12-22 21:12 GMT+01:00 Eric Walker <[email protected]>: > >> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >>> https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-scientists-dismiss-the-possibility-of-cold-fusion >>> >> >> I like the essay by Huw Price a lot. He has a great attitude. >> Philosophers of science and sociologists are in a good position to light a >> fire under intransigent cliques in the physical sciences. Someone like >> Kuhn would have a field day with what's going on right now. >> >> I think the reference to Lundin's and Lidgren's paper was unfortunate and >> could become a distraction for Price later on in making his general point. >> >> Eric >> >> > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
