----- Original Message ----- From: "Jed Rothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:24 PM Subject: [Vo]:Should Congress support cold fusion? I vote no!
... > But, by the same standard, I > suppose 1% of the public believes in perpetual motion machines such > as the one Joe Newman claims he has. I would not want to see the > government spend research money on that sort of thing. Some polls > indicate that half of the public believes in creationism instead of > evolution, but I would not want to see government money spent on > creationism. (I suspect these polls exaggerate the support for creationism.) You're right Jed, the public believes in many silly things, so why the hell do you want to rely on them to decide which research should be publicly funded? Like you said, they would grant more public funding to Joseph Newman (just like they presently grant him private funding) than to CF research. How could they decide that one is better than the other BTW, surely it looks pretty much the same to them. It's only a question of marketing I imagine, maybe CF should play heavily on religious beliefs like creationists and Newman do? Michel
