Re: [Vo]: Congress seeks documents in Purdue cold-fusion probe

[Jed Rothwell]

Edmund Storms wrote:

This makes no sense at all. The sonofusion work has no hope of being 
practical and the issue of reproducibility is trivial. Why would 
Congress get involved? If the oil industry were worried about cold fusion . . .

I do not think this has anything to do with the oil industry. Robert 
Park and other enemies of cold fusion have frequently spoken out 
against sonofusion. They think it is another form of cold fusion. You 
have to realize, they have read nothing and they know nothing about 
either field of research, so they get the two confused.

Alternatively, this might have been engineered by Taleyarkhan's 
jealous academic rivals, who were the ones behind the original 
witchhunt at Purdue. They believe that sonofusion exists, but they 
want the credit for it.

- Jed