On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am sorry to report that there has been a considerable decline in > interest in cold fusion. The number of Google alerts about the subject is > far lower than it used to be. The number of people reading papers at > LENR-CANR.org is down. The numbers usually goes down in summer when > students take a break from universities, but this year the numbers are > particularly low. See: > Scientific research should not be a popularity contest, right? *Especially* considering the funding circus that the usual 'vested interests' have prostituted it into (like much else in life). If I were you people, this development would be almost my least concern at the moment. > http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/?page_id=1213 > > Results from Google Ngram are less conclusive. Apparently the term "LENR" > meant something in the 19th century and it was for more common than it is > today. Both "LENR" and the phrase "cold fusion" have fallen in popularity. > So what does this say about all those people who've insisted that we stop using the term 'cold fusion', because it is 'needlessly provocative'[sic] -- and who came up with this 'LENR' euphemism, to replace it ..? Bah. So much for these smart people...
