Thanks, Harry, Jed,
Its clear now what his opinion was at least. Never liked Nature anyway :-).
On Sep 19, 2011 1:29 PM, "Harry Veeder" <[email protected]> wrote:
> For some context see 1:45 of this video posted by Steven Krivit.
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9Jp9L_6-BI
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> 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
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>>Bastiaan Bergman <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>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?
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>>I believe that was taken from a BBC interview. I do not think that Maddox
talked to us directly.
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>>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.
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>>There is no way to know what Maddox meant because he is dead.
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>>- Jed
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