Steven Krivit wrote:
The laboratory protocol for Phase 1 of the Galileo Project is
available for any adult who is willing to sign a liability release.
This policy makes no sense for the following reasons:
1. Mosier-Boss hopes to publish the protocol in a journal soon.
Assuming she has given permission to distribute it now, why withhold
it? Of, if there is any legal liability attached, why distribute it at all?
2. Most cold fusion experiments are dangerous. Why single out this one?
3. This protocol was invented in the Navy (NRL), and as far as I
know, that makes it pubic property, like the discoveries and
inventions made by researchers at NASA. What Krivit is doing is
comparable to distributing plans for a NASA rocket -- a rocket being
a very dangerous thing to make, after all -- and asking for a
liability release. If anyone is hurt it would make as much sense for
them to sue the NRL as Krivit.
4. This implies that Krivit has some legal responsibility to prevent
people from hurting themselves while doing an experiment. If not, why
would he have to indemnify himself? If someone is hurt, the fact that
he asked for this release may be taken as evidence that he is
responsible. What if someone passes the protocol onto someone else,
and the second person is hurt?
Our contact information is
<http://newenergytimes.com/contact/contact.htm>here. The experiment
is not recommended for people without electrochemistry experience.
No experiment in cold fusion is recommended for people without
electrochemistry experience.
New Energy Institute has selected a new team for Phase 2 of the
Galileo Project.
I think it is a very bad idea to have any organization or individual
"in charge of" basic scientific research of this nature. No one
should be "selecting teams," filtering information, or trying to
direct this effort. This goes against academic tradition and common
sense. It is also very likely to derail the research and prevent a
positive result, for the reasons I discussed here:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtransistor.pdf
This protocol along with other information about cold fusion research
should be made available to every scientist in the world, once the
author is confident that the result is ready for publication. (I am
not advocating premature or hastily written papers. We have too many
like that already.) Any scientist who wishes to pursue this
experiment should be free to do so unhampered by amateurs such as
Steve Krivit or me.
Krivit is continuing what has become a tradition in cold fusion:
keeping research secret, and preventing the spread of valuable
information. Two other manifestations of this are in the closed,
secret discussions in the CMNS group, and Takahashi's decision not to
publish ICCF12 papers on the Internet, and not to allow a native
speaker of English to edit the papers (me, or anyone else). The
result is that the ICCF12 papers are incomprehensible and unavailable
to 99.99% of people who might be interested in them. Hiding
information and trying to prevent criticism and open reviews of this
research is is a disastrous mistake, and it is contrary to the
traditions of academic science. It is a gift to the people who oppose
cold fusion. The actions of people such as Krivit and Takahashi cause
more harm to the field than than the actions of most harsh skeptics.
- Jed
