At 03:00 PM 10/13/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:

NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, October 13, 2009. Observer Abd ul-Rahman Lomax, of Lomax Design Associates, today read the above comment from Jed Rothwell, which could explain Rothwell's sometimes erratic behavior. As admitted, Rothwell has difficulty with a pen, which he frequently uses as an axe or chainsaw. . . .

That's hysterical!

NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, October 13, 2009. Observer Abd ul-Rahman Lomax, of Lomax Design Associates, having presented the Vortex-l mailing list with a detailed criticism of the outrageous behavior of Jed Rothwell, famous nut-bag "author" and so-called "librarian" of lenr-canr.org, a collection of rants from alleged "scientists" and "researchers," deluded by wishful thinking into misreading their instruments, received this mail from Rothwell, in which he viciously libels Mr. Lomax as "hysterical," impugning not only his integrity but that of all persons suffering from mental problems. Fortunately, Mr. Lomax has an ample supply of drugs and was not seriously harmed by this scurrilous attack, and, after a night's rest, will probably be fine. However, as a precaution, Mr. Lomax will be checking all his food with a Geiger counter, there is no telling what these cold fusioneers will stoop to in their pursuit of world domination through Pathological Science.

Now, where were we? Ah, yes:

Regarding Martin Fleischmann, people who has seen him often in the past year tell me that he seems remarkably better lately. I cannot judge whether this is thanks to the treatment or just a natural improvement. It is good news either way. I will be interested in finding out if the therapy works, for personal reasons.

Scares the hell out of me. My ex-wife once tried to give me some tachyon beads when I had a headache, and I turned her down. My thinking was, "What if it works?" I.e., the headache goes away? If they were free, why not? But they aren't free, they cost $10 each, and supposedly one needed dozens of them or more, little pieces of plastic treated by the Secret Advanced Tachyon Bead process, to soak them with Tachyon Energy. This was almost twenty years ago, and I see that they are still being sold. Great stuff, I'm sure, I probably passed up a chance to be immortal.

from Google, just the search engine display:

Note: These are glass beads that were treated with tachyon energy changing their atomic composition, not the ordinary untreated glass beads you may find in ...

May 3, 2005 ... Imagine the tachyon water as tachyon beads going in every cell of your body. That surely makes your evolution go much faster. ...

I applied tachyon beads to the chakra points on my body and meditated. Within a few minutes I had .... He then sent the electricity through a tachyon bead. ...

Feb 23, 2009 ... There are takionic beads, 10 for $118.95, which are said to have antennae which "focus the beneficial tachyon energy". ...

Gold Plated Castle Locket - with 10 Tachyon Beads, $170.00, Buy 1 'Gold Plated Castle Locket - with 10 Tachyon Beads' now ...

Tachyon Beads Suspending disbelief for a moment, I explored the websites hoping to discover the secret behind the process of Tachyonization. ...

Our Tachyon/ Earth Energy pendant is one fine example, utilizing a Tachyon bead which captures FIR (Far Infrared) energy from the atmosphere as well as an ...

Okay, to be fair, the second from the last is a debunker, and quotes this excerpt from Advanced Tachyon Technologies (Slogan: Better Living through Tachyon):

Tachyon Energy is the very first energetic structure that emerges out of non-structured, formless Zero-Point Energy. Just like Zero-Point Energy, Tachyon is not limited to a certain frequency. Tachyon cannot be measured in the Hertzian frequency spectrum. It is not a certain type of energy. Rather, it includes all energies within itself. Its qualities are much like Zero-Point Energy, varying only in that it is a structured field.

My apologies to the serious ZPE researchers here. You are no more responsible for the long-term tachyon scam than are cold fusion researchers for the activities of various charlatans who have attempted to capitalize on non-existent CF technology. It's possible, even, that people are helped by tachyon beads, but people are helped by placebos and by homeopathic remedies, which might be little different, and are usually much less expensive.

Is LifeWave a scam? Hard to tell, frankly, though it sounds weird as hell. But it's up to Fleischmann and his family what treatments they use, and I'm not thrilled by prosecution of health scammers unless they truly *scam,* i.e., lie or seriously misrepresent what they are doing, and often state agencies don't care much about the distinction between fringe and fraud, and there is a difference, which is why I don't place high immediate value on Dardik's license revocation.

Fleischmann gave a short talk at the beginning of the conference. He sounded tired but mentally all there, as he did in conversation later. His talk was greeted with a standing ovation from all participants, which he richly deserves.

He deserves, actually, a Nobel prize. I'd say that even if it turns out that CF, somehow, is a bust. Fleischmann was doing what is too little done, exploring the boundaries of the assumptions of quantum mechanics; as I'm sure Rothwell knows, Fleischmann has said that he expected the inaccuracies of quantum mechanics to be below measurement error. He was wrong, and for being willing to look at something where he expected a boring result that nobody would be interested in, he deserves the prize. He was lucky and we were lucky, though, that he had some palladium that worked, he could easily have had a different batch, and it might have been a long time before anyone else decided to follow up on one of those weird palladium deuteride phenomena.

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