On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Joshua Cude <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Mary Yugo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If Rossi prevails, Krivit will certainly look bad, and so will the entire >>> scientific establishment. >>> >> > That's true. The skepticism of Rossi is justified. But if Rossi were to > prevail, then the scientific establishment will have clearly failed to > exploit a dramatically important effect identified 20 years ago -- an > effect that is pretty straightforward to set up, and that should be trivial > to demonstrate unequivocally. (Don't get me wrong; I don't expect this to > happen. But if cold fusion is real, then the advocates are right in that > science will have something to answer for.) > We agree that 20 years is a long time to wait for acceptance if cold fusion is real and if it was truly identified by P&F 20 years ago. If so, the entire scientific community must be incredibly obstinate or the proof for cold fusion isn't very good or some combination of both. Or maybe cold fusion has yet to be properly demonstrated and the sincere researchers are looking at errors and noise. As I've said before, I have no way to choose personally between those options. My interest is focused only on Rossi because of the robustness of the claims, the ease with which they could have been proven and weren't, and the incredibly weird way those claims have been promoted.
