For some context see 1:45 of this video posted by Steven Krivit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9Jp9L_6-BI Harry
From: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 2:30:59 PM >Subject: Re: [Vo]:John Maddox, editor Nature magazine around 1989 > > >Bastiaan Bergman <[email protected]> wrote: > > >At min 4:24 >>John Maddox >>Editor of Nature magazine >>says: "It [cold fusion] will remain dead for a long long time" >> >>This to me means that it is not dead for forever, or 'temporarily >>dead' be it for a long time. Does anyone know what Mr. Maddox meant to >>say? > > >I believe that was taken from a BBC interview. I do not think that Maddox >talked to us directly. > > >That comment mystified Mallove and me. It was a distinctly odd thing to say. >It mystified some of our British friends too, so it was not some British turn >of phrase. > > >There is no way to know what Maddox meant because he is dead. > > >- Jed > > > >
