William Beaty wrote:
I had a large insight into my own psychology, and theirs. My "inner
bigot" tells me exactly what's going on: CF-haters respond to CF
supporters in the same way that racists respond to non-whites: with
intolerance, with very strong feelings of superiority, and with
buried hatred. It's definitely an ego thing, but it seems to better
fit the mold of "race hatred."
In the case of the late Douglas Morrison this was literally true. He
used to publish papers and give lectures about what he called the
"regionalization of results" theory. He made the following assertions:
* Nearly all original scientific work has originated in northern
European nations, or by people who in the US who emigrated from
northern Europe.
* Cold fusion, which he considered pathological science, had been
mistakenly replicated only in southern European nations such as
Italy, or non-European places such as Japan and India.
He had a barrage of statistics to prove this theory, which I called
his Aryan Science Numerology. He described it in one of his newsletters:
"A7. REGIONALISATION OF RESULTS - COLD FUSION IN FRANCE
In May 1989 when I was trying to organise all the cold fusion results
that I had collected, decided to group them by country for
convenience. But was greatly astonished to find that some countries
and regions had mainly positive results whereas other had mainly null
results. This Regionalization of Results persisted with time except
that some regions that at first had mainly positive results had
switched and now had mainly null results. This is quite contrary to
belief in the Universality . . ."
He claims he was "greatly astonished" but in fact he was going around
giving lectures about this regionalization theory long before cold
fusion emerged. Mallove sent me some Morrison lecture announcements he dug up.
He was a deceitful, spiteful, mean & wretched person, and racist to the core.
- Jed
