At 10:13 PM 10/13/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote:
It does not matter who he is.
Yes and no. Once I recognized the style, even if it isn't ScienceApologist, I can see where this would go. He would never give up. And he knows arguments that he hasn't presented yet. He's been doing this for years. Kemosabe shows strong familiarity with this set of arguments, and the "editor at Naturwissenschaften" is very new. SA raised that less than two weeks ago.
It is typical of a skeptic at Naturwissenschaften that big news in terms of the acceptance of cold fusion, the appointment of Edmund Storms as LENR editor at NW, is turned around into a reason to discount the paper as being written by an editor. Yet, of course, they'd have no trouble with a frank editorial at Nature, when was it? 1989 or 1990? I'm sure Storms did not review his own paper, it would be extraordinarily foolish for Springer-Verlag to allow that. (Or they would have it be a signed editorial, perhaps, a pure opinion piece, not a "review of the field," as it was.)
But I would not approach the newspaper. They could tell, if they wanted to, from the IP. ScienceApologist is apparently Joshua Schroeder, a graduate student in astronomy at Columbia University, the IP would be likely to geolocate there, I doubt he'd use a proxy.
It is not important enough to trouble them with it.
