Walter Faxon wrote:
All the more important to get CF off its butt here in the West, then.
As a practical matter, what do you suggest we do? Rob a bank to finance the experiments?
Not the phenomena, the "science"; our organized understanding of the phenomena. That's what's a mess.
Then most scientific understanding is a mess. We know practically nothing, and most of what we think we know will turn out to be wrong. See the map in chapter 19 of my book.
Jed, I suspect that Randi was just tired of talking to you.
Not half as much as I am tired of hearing him spout off about a subject he knows nothing about!
But please, Jed! Don't use my reasoning as an excuse to bother Randi again. I already warned you once about annoying him.
Seriously, Walter, why would I care about annoying Randi? Or Huizenga, Taubes or Park? One of the few pleasures this job offers is annoying such people.
In particular I don't want you to screw up what seems to be an extremely simple and reproducible CF-related transmutation experiment that Vortexian Michael Foster may use to apply for the Challenge . . .
Don't be ridiculous! Randi and his friends would never admit that such an experiment is real. I have shown them irrefutable proof from five top laboratories in Japan and France. It has not made the slightest impression on them. They will not admit it until the experiment is endorsed by major mainstream institutions and it appears on the front page of time magazine. Then they will say they believed it all along. In fact they will take credit for it.
In any case, I am not Michael Foster. - Jed
