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As the smoke cleared, William Beaty <[email protected]> mounted the barricade and roared out: > Here's something nobody ever mentions, and which I never noticed until > Scott Little pointed it out long ago: it requires weeks to initially > load a Pd electrode (essentially converting the whole thing into > palladium hydride.) Yet those famous first "damning failures to > replicate" were announced in that time, or less. Doesn't this prove > that MIT (etc.) only made a *single* replication attempt? Wouldn't an > honest lab have given several tries before giving up? > > Perhaps it even suggests that they performed the experiment entirely > wrong, and didn't load their electrodes near 100% before suddenly > announcing that the experiment didn't work. > > A person suspecting dishonest actions might even wonder if they started > to become frightned that it *would* work, so they turned it off early > and hoped nobody would ever check their announcement dates and figure > it out. > > Anyway, in addition to the mysteriously altered baseline, bringing up > this date discrepancy might make a nice little "nail in the coffin" > when discussing the shennanigans surrounding the sudden "debunker" > attacks first mounted against P&F. A main reason I never became a scientist myself (my orginal life goal) is for the same reason I am not awed by the power of the bourgeois state: at an early age I learned a certain contempt for the reality of what scientists by-and-large actually are (in the present social setup), as people and as professionals. - -- grok. - -- Build the North America-wide General Strike. TODO el poder a los consejos y las comunas. TOUT le pouvoir aux conseils et communes. ALL power to the councils and communes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkn10RcACgkQXo3EtEYbt3FFDgCgrabOZdMZ/AGOUDmLuVmYATGt 5qEAn0ruuJGaIOcmohcsVfxl9RZmeZzJ =nw73 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
