Here is a message I posted on CMNS. I repeat it as a warning, or
plea, to experimentalists here. There has been far too much casual,
mindless destruction of critical information in this field.
Ludwik Kowalski wrote:
2) The foils were mailed in a little plastic bag inside the ordinary
paper envelope.
OY VEH! SHIT!
Ludwik, and everyone else, PLEASE STOP DOING STUPID THINGS LIKE THIS!!!!
For goodness sake, have some common sense! Haven't you seen envelopes
arrive at your house torn, damaged or bent? It happens all the time.
You can go to the post office or UPS and spend $3, and get a strong
cardboard box that will be 50 times more likely to arrive intact.
You may have destroyed critical samples, and vital one-of-a-kind data
because you did not spend 10 minutes and few dollars to get a proper container.
I am sorry to be so strident, but this kind of behavior really irks
me. You spent weeks in Japan working on this experiment. Kasagi may
have devoted months and tens of thousands of dollars to prepare the
sample. And you may have destroyed it! For no reason!
Cold fusion scientists have made sloppy mistakes like this time after
time. Destroying evidence, casually throwing away machines, losing
critical data. They have also lost or thrown away countless papers,
photographs and computer data. This is highly unprofessional, it is
completely uncalled for, and you damn well should stop doing it!
- Jed
