Edmund Storms wrote:
Let me throw my two cents into this discussion. Of course some
people doing cold fusion have made mistakes and reported bad data.
Right. And this is like saying that some programmers write programs
with bugs, some doctors accidentally kill patients, and some people
drive their cars into trees by accident. People in all walks of life
make mistakes.
This is not the issue. When this happen in normal science, people go
back to the lab and try again.
Right again. And programmers correct their mistakes. (Or at
Microsoft, they declare that the mistake is a feature, they charge
extra for it, and then they charge you to get rid of it.)
In cold fusion, the error is used to discredit the whole idea. That
is the issue! Cold fusion needs to treated just like any other
science, mistakes and all.
Exactly. Just because some drivers sometimes run into trees, you do
not declare that no one can drive, or that cars do not exist.
I know perfectly well that some CF researchers are wrong, but it is
inconceivable that all of them are wrong. The two assertions must not
be confused.
- Jed
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