> Well, if I had been so confident that cold fusion or LENR or what ever you > want to call it is impossible, I would feel quite foolish at the moment. > He spent many years of his career making fun of the serious researchers > operating within the field. >
I'm not sure who will end up looking foolish here. At this point, Rossi is far from proving that his device is real. Even if it is, skepticism is, at this point in time, the correct perspective. > I suspect that the damage to the world and people caused by his attitude > and interference is incalculable. Do you not think that the field was > damaged by he and a number of other prominent scientists? We would all be > better off had they kept out of the loop entirely. > I don't know how much damage Park and other skeptics did to cold fusion research. I personally highly favor funding for cold fusion research in proportion to the promise of a particular concept or implementation. I think most of the damage has been done by claimants who couldn't prove their theories and whose devices did not work convincingly enough.
