One can only hope. More than likely, however, by the time Mr. Park's reputation is damaged by being the Grand Inquisitor for the American Physical Society, he'll be dead and no one will remember him.
M. > From: Edmund Storms <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Bob Park now calls it unimportant science. > To: [email protected] > Cc: "Edmund Storms" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 9:06 AM > Consider the position Park has created for himself. He > encouraged the destruction of the reputations for two > scientists who made one of the most important discoveries of > this century. He delayed development of an energy source > that can solve some of the most important threats to > civilization. Now he finds that his evaluation of the CF > work was wrong. The question is, just how wrong must a > person be about an important subject before their reputation > suffers? Why would you expect Park to accelerate this loss > of credibility by acknowledging that he was wrong? > Eventually, history and the cold fusion community will > insure that he gets the reputation he tried to give > Fleischmann and Pons. > > Ed
