Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
There is any amount of anti-cold fusion material from mainstream
sources. It has no depth.
"Mainstream"? Jed, you've swallowed a bill of goods. There is no
mainstream. Or, rather, there are many. Is the ACS "mainstream"? Is
Oxford University Press . . .
Please note that I did not say that all mainstream media is opposed
to cold fusion. That has never been the case. Every year there have
been one or two articles in mainstream mass media sympathetic to cold
fusion. However, mass media articles attacking cold fusion have
greatly outnumbered those supporting it. I have not made a careful
tally but that is my impression based on Google alerts, Google
searches, and other sources.
This year the ratio may have shifted somewhat to more favorable
articles but there are still many from the opposition.
There are some instances in which some authors in a journal or
magazine attack cold fusion while others defend it. The best example
is New Scientist which has printed appalling attacks against cold
fusion and outrageous distortions. They won the prize for that in
1993. Yet that same magazine has printed accurate and sympathetic
articles such as their Miles interview.
My favorite example of a journal with a split personality was the
Journal of Fusion Energy, September 2004 issue which has an attack on
cold fusion on page 161 and a long paper about cold fusion in China
by X. Z. Li On page 217.
- Jed
