Steven Krivit wrote:
Thanks for your thoughts and criticism. I agree with some of what you said.
In that case your actions contradict your beliefs.
If someone wants to do this experiment, they can easily figure it out from published literature.
Wrong. First, it is not easy. Second, the whole point of the scientific endeavor -- research, publish, inform -- is to make it easier for other people to replicate your work. If you do not tell people what you have done you are not doing science. Keeping a finished, tested protocol secret is the exact opposite of what a scientist is supposed to do. It defeats the purpose. It accomplishes exactly what Robert Park is trying to do: to bury the field, destroy the evidence, keep anyone from finding out.
So, they are free to do so.
Free to do an experiment they have never heard of, about which they know nothing? This is like saying that anyone is free to replicate one of these secret protocols for building magnetic motors, or Stanley Meyer's can that ran on water. All you have to do is speak with a dead man and persuade him to reveal information he spent most of his life hiding. I do not think that a séance would work, but at least Meyer is no longer capable of throwing a bottle at your head, the way he did when someone went to visit him and asked a polite question.
- Jed
