If its actual politics that has to do with the technology and development of the science, thats one thing.
The moment it extrapolates to world politics, ect, thats taking it a bit far. And Jed's response is pretty much, well, I'm taking my ball and going home. Sorry if i have no respect for that reaction. On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 6:01 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Jed, we want you to come back. I enjoy your posts. I saw somthing you > would like when I visited the Oak Ridge science mueseum. I positive exhibit > on cold fusion. I will post the text once I such a picture. I took of it > into my computer. I asked the exhibition manager about it. He said > several people had asked him to take it down. I told him to resist them and > keep it up. You worked to make these things happen Jed. Your efforts willl > prove to be of historic proportion. I've been kicked down many times. I > gave up at periods. I am still in the game, you need to take a break > from suck it up and then come back. > > Frank > > Snip...........message from Jed > > > "I miss Jed.? I hope he comes back." > > That would be up to Bill Beaty. He does not seem anxious to let me back in, > and honestly, I am not inclined to go where I am not wanted. I did not > realize that people there are uninterested in the politics of cold fusion. > Since that is my main area of expertise, I do not have much else to > contribute, so I don't see much point to rejoining, even if he lets me. I > upload announcement of new papers, but there are not many of them anymore. > Most of the literature is out of reach, because of copyright restrictions. > > It is not important. There is hardly any news about cold fusion in any case; > the field is moribund, as it has been for years. You can read about > political events at Krivit's site: http://www.newenergytimes.com/ > > The only problem with that site is that many people do not want to read it, > because Krivit has stepped on people's toes -- many of them deservedly. I am > less inclined to do that because, frankly, I don't care what people think or > what they are up to (other than experiments). I wouldn't bother stepping on > most of the toes Steve stomped. I just want those people to give me papers. > > "You know, when things didn't go his way at Infinite Energy, he never came > back." > > That is completely incorrect. Gene Mallove got upset with me there because I > said unkind things about the Correas. Gene was working closely with them. > See: > > http://www.aetherometry.com/Electronic_Publications/Politics_of_Science/Serpents_Tooth/serpent_index.html > > Also, at that point I had nothing more to write for the magazine (and I > still don't) and I was busy working on LENR-CANR, mainly OCR work. A few > weeks before he was killed, however, Gene helped fund LENR-CANR, and we were > talking about collaborating on other work. He did not hold a grudge for long > and neither do I. > > After Gene died they asked me to contribute to the magazine, but I told them > I am not interested in writing for journals published on paper. The audience > is too small. The only way to communicate with the public in the 21st > century is on the Internet, in sites with unrestricted access by anyone. > When the subject is cold fusion, the only way is to give away the > information for free. Unfortunately for authors, people will not pay for it. > That's why, for example, the books about cold fusion by Mizuno, Beaudette > and me available at Amazon.com sell a few copies per month, whereas people > download hundreds of copies a week of those same book from LENR-CANR.org. > > I do not want to participate in the closed group at CMNS because it is > closed to the public. (Also because I do not want to hear any technical > secrets.) My goal is to bring people into the field and educate the public, > not to contribute to the closed echo chamber of cold fusion. The skeptics > are right when they say the field is ingrown and cut off from the > mainstream. They are mainly to blame, but people who establish closed > discussion groups are also at fault. > > Since I went to the trouble to write all of this, I would appreciate it if > you would post it to Vortex. Unless that would get you in trouble with > Beaty. He is someone I thought I knew, but I have sadly misjudged him. > > - Jed > ________________________________ > Refinance and lower payments online with Ditech. Visit www.ditech.com Today!
