Dave Nagel is a friend of Robert Park. I have a photo him and Scott Chubb having lunch with Park, just before ICCF-14 . Park looking mighty uncomfortable, having just turned down an invitation to the conference. I wrote to Dave:
[I think you should ask Park] if he now retracts the attacks on cold fusion he published in the WaPost and elsewhere, and his talk a the APS when he & Zimmerman vowed to "hunt down and root out" any federal research who believes in cold fusion. I will bet he would say that Fleischmann and Pons were criminals, frauds etc. but the latest group of researchers are not. That's what that jerk Kevles said. Seriously, it would help if he would publish a retraction in the WaPost. The major newspapers have a lot of influence. A lot more influence than people realize -- maybe more than *you* realize! Scientists are supposed to read journals and not be swayed by newspapers, but as Gene Mallove used to say, they put on their pants one leg at a time and they read the paper with their morning coffee, and it influences them as much as anyone. - Jed
