By the way, the subject of this thread is "intentionally put off." I
gather this refers to the notion that Scott Little and Earthtech have
deliberately screwed up cold fusion experiments or taken steps not to
find excess heat. I think there is no chance they have done anything
like that. They have made some errors -- as all researchers do -- but
as far as I know they have been 100% honest and their motivation is
just what they say it is.
My only quibble with Scott Little is that on some occasions he has
held himself to be the standard by which cold fusion should be
judged. He has sometimes felt that if he personally cannot replicate
an effect, that means it is not real. That is ridiculous. I have
written many Pascal programs but that does not mean I can write any
program to accomplish any task, or that my programs are as elegant as
Niclaus Wirth's. (Wirth writes programs the way Mozart wrote music.)
As far as I know, there have only been a handful of dishonest or fake
results in the history of cold fusion.
- Jed
