Steve - Gotta Luv the spoof (item # 16) on Pierre Curie- i.e. being denied funding by a Gov'm't agency on account of the experiment being against the laws of physics ... but, hey, you didn't need to acknowledge it as satire ;-)
Historical trivia note - which is especially funny in the context of that genius magician we all know and love as "Randi". What a putz... Anyway - Papa Curie was undoubtedly a great scientist, plus - it was in the 'genes' - he, his wife, and daughter and son-in-law all won Nobel prizes, but that did not keep Pierre from being totally and incurably deceived by chicanery - to wit: a "medium". Randi could no doubt fool him also, and then use that as proof that uranium does not create what up to then would have to be considered "free-energy" and pathological science. BTW the name of the medium was "Palladino" and this is another curious correlation to the palladium metal often used in LENR. Pierre was totally taken-in by a Parisian medium named Eusapia Palladino, and attended séances (when he was not making World changing discoveries in the laboratory). He said of her spooky performances: "those phenomena exist for real, and I cant doubt it any more. It is unbelievable but it is thus, and it is impossible to negate it after the séances that we had in conditions of perfect monitoring. He added "The only possible cheating would be an extraordinary ability of the medium as a magician." Randi, of course, knows this all too well. The point being that that anyone can be fooled, but the biggest fool of all is the one who knows how all the others except him were fooled. ... or something to that effect. Jones
