I noticed that columnist-debunker, Robert Sheaffer, of CSICOP has written in his column, Psychic Vibrations, that Professor John Bockris of Texam A&M University has recently received Ig Nobel Prize.
See: http://www.csicop.org/si/9801/sheaffer.html
Needless to say, it is an unflattering account of Prof. Bockris' experimental accomplishments as well as inferred associations with questionable individuals, as detailed below.
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Another advance in science receiving belated recognition involves Professor John Bockris of Texas A&M University, who was recently awarded the celebrated Ig Nobel Prize for Physics by the Annals of Improbable Research at Harvard. Bockris is a leading researcher in the field of cold fusion whose accomplishments have been prominently featured in Infinite Energy magazine. However, the prize was actually awarded for his experiments demonstrating the chemical transmutation of base metals into silver and gold. Bockris did not travel to Cambridge to pick up his prize.
The money to fund Texas A&M University's 1993 ventures into alchemical research was donated by William Telander. The Houston Chronicle reported last April 3 that Telander was recently released from prison after serving two years for securities fraud. The university still holds $45,000 of his original $200,000 donation, and Telander wants it back unless it is used for its intended purpose -- funding Bockris's experiments. The university, however, has frozen the funds, apparently as nervous about funding more alchemy as it is about returning the money.
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Jed and Ed's lenr-canr web site lists many intriguing research papers on the transmutation of certain metals, like the one titled "Replication of MHI Transmutation Experiment by D2 Gas Permeation Through Pd Complex", by a number of distinguished individuals. See:
http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Higashiyamreplicatio.pdf
Experimental evidence of the transmutation of elements seems to revolve around lesser-known elements like changing Cesium (Cs) to Praseodymium (Pr). I can't even pronounce "Praseodymium", let alone recognize it.
OTOH, searching the Lenr-Canr web site and entering in phrases like "Bockris" and "Gold" and "Silver" does bring up a number of surprising links. I find papers involving the use of elements like Gold, Silver, and Platinum and linking them to Prof. Bockris. However, it's not clear to me if Prof. Bokris' experimental objectives were to create base elements like gold and silver or whether these base elements are simply used in those experiments in order to facilitate the transmutation of other elements, like Iron.
So, is Sheaffer's account of Bockris' work accurate, or is this just another example of Scheaffer at his finest.
Regards
Steven Vincent Johnson
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