Also, even though he doesn't mention it, he is probably biased by Dardik's record as a fraud:
http://w3.health.state.ny.us/opmc/factions.nsf/cd901a6816701d94852568c0004e3fb7/ab4673ce572a225885256a4a0047cb3c/$FILE/ATT3EKNH/lc091514.pdf Has he been vindicated for the accusations in the above ruling (conning multiple patients suffering of Multiple Sclerosis into believing he could cure them in exchange for a few tens of thousand dollars, basically), anyone knows? I wish CBS had picked a CF research lab led by a less controversial character though. Michel 2009/5/4 Edmund Storms <[email protected]>: > I don't think this is back peddling. This is one more effort by Park to > appear to be clever and funny at someone else's expense. He has no opinion > about the subject of cold fusion. He will say what ever makes him look > funny and wise to the ignorant. > > Ed > > > On May 3, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: > >> What's New >> by Bob Park >> >> Friday, May 1, 2009 >> >> 1. IT'S STILL COLD: BUT DO I STILL THINK IT'S SCIENCE? >> A month before CBS aired the 60 Minutes program on cold fusion, I >> commented in WN that "I think it's real science." I still do. That >> doesn't mean I think it's good science. Science is conditional; >> everything is open to further examination. Some scientists think the >> community was too hasty in writing off the claims of cold fusion in >> 1989. They believe there may be important truths yet to be revealed. >> They have searched for those truths for 20 years and have every right >> to continue doing so. However, I think the likelihood of success is >> extremely low and, if asked, I would recommend against the use of >> public funds for that purpose. Their case is not helped by embracing >> any scientific sounding nonsense that purports to show excess energy -- >> which brings us to Irving Dardik. >> >> 2. SUPERWAVE: IT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING -- BUT PREDICTS NOTHING. >> Written as SuperWave it seems to be a registered trademark. What >> exactly is it? Anything you want it to be. Irving Dardik was in sports >> medicine, a specialty notoriously prone to alternative medicine. He >> treated sports injuries with rhythmic exercise, and invented a catchy >> name, LifeWaves. This led to an epiphany: you can explain everything >> by wave interference. The French mathematician Fourier, figured that >> out in the 18th century, but Dardik doesn't do math. Even solid matter >> is waves, he concluded, i.e. SuperWaves. Is this big? Louis de Broglie >> won a Nobel Prize for that idea in 1929, and Irving Schrodinger won >> the Nobel Prize in 1933 and transformed the world by putting wave >> theory into an equation. But Dardik doesn't do equations. Instead he >> hired a flack, Roger Lewin, to gush endlessly about him in a 2005 >> book, Making Waves, with a Forward by, uh, Michael McKubre. So the >> CBS “science buzz” consists of one chemist? >> >> 3. OUT OF AFRICA: PINPOINTING THE DEPARTURE POINT. >> The discovery in 2003 by Tim White of UC Berkeley of a 160,000 year >> old partial skeleton of Homo sapiens in Ethiopia was the strongest >> evidence yet that we did indeed come out of Africa. A young molecular >> anthropologist at the University of Maryland, Sarah Tishkoff, saw that >> the mapping of the human genome provides a new tool for tracking the >> out-of-Africa migration of Homo sapiens: footprints in the DNA of >> living humans. Now at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, Tishkoff' s team, >> which included linguists as well as geneticists, narrowed the origin >> of modern humans to the inhospitable borderland between Angola and >> Namibia. Their study, published yesterday in Science, took researchers >> into remote regions to sample the bloodline of more than 100 distinct >> populations. The exit point was in Northeast Africa at about the >> midpoint of the Red Sea. >> >> 4. SCIENCE BUDGET: THE OUTLOOK IS INTOXICATING. >> The President and Congress have actually been collaborating on the >> federal investment in science. President Obama talked of an increase >> of more than 3%, an almost mythic figure that has never been attained. >> Not surprisingly, the biggest winner was energy, slated to receive an >> increase of 21% over FY 2008, compared to the Bush figure of less than >> 1%. Even in agriculture, where science had been expected to lose about >> 10%, it will instead climb by more than 5%. But before you begin to >> hyperventilate, bear in mind that this is only an asking budget, which >> seems to mean less each year. With record deficits expected, these >> numbers are sure to drop before the first dollar is appropriated in >> October. >> > >
