R.C.Macaulay wrote:
Howdy Jed,
Positive in that 5 reports are now in print, negative in the words
"laced" within the reports.
Yup. But please note that 4 out of 5 says something good about CF, in
addition to the usual negative garbage. Google Alerts brings me
dozens of articles about cold fusion every year. There are few
positive ones from places like ZPEnergy, but as I recall, for the
past several years every single one of the mainstream articles was
completely negative. The ones in Time magazine and the Washington
Post the I featured in the LENR-CANR News section are typical. See:
http://lenr-canr.org/News.htm
These 5 articles are way ahead of the Post. At least they do not
accuse us of fraud!
The Wired article is whacky, but at least it includes the photo from BARC.
Yes, the message is present but flavored with negatives
and attitude of skepticism, a product of our modern university systems . . .
I do not think this is a modern attitude. You will find similar
attitudes in the newspapers and journals discussing Pasteur's germ
theory in the 1860s, or the Wright brothers in 1906. See also:
"[A] most futile attempt and totally impossible to be carried out." -
Benjamin Disraeli describes the proposed Suez Canal in 1858
"The Panama Canal is actually a thing of the past, and Nature in her
works will soon obliterate all traces of French energy and money
expended on the Isthmus." - Scientific American, 1891
"I will ignore all ideas and new works and engines of war, the
invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I
see no further hope." - Julius Frontinius, chief military engineer to
the Roman Emperor Vespasian, 1st century A.D.
I think this is human nature.
- Jed
