On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Mary Yugo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > People opposed to cold fusion have successfully used misdirection, ignorance > and outright lies for 22 years and counting. They managed to suppress the > discovery of Helicobacter pylori well into the internet era. That discovery > was worth a Nobel, but that did not stop people from trying to suppress it, > because of money -- the usual reason. The true story of h. pylori as per Wiki which provides references: "Although there was some skepticism initially, within several years numerous research groups verified the association of H. pylori with gastritis and, to a lesser extent, ulcers.[79] To demonstrate H. pylori caused gastritis and was not merely a bystander, Marshall drank a beaker of H. pylori culture. He became ill with nausea and vomiting several days later. An endoscopy ten days after inoculation revealed signs of gastritis and the presence of H. pylori. These results suggested H. pylori was the causative agent of gastritis. Marshall and Warren went on to demonstrate that antibiotics are effective in the treatment of many cases of gastritis. " There was resistance initially not for financial reasons so much as technological ones because at that point it was just a guess and a pretty radical one at that. Subsequently, the proponents conducted the best possible tests to prove their hypothesis, they results were what they said, the methods were reliable, and they went on to a Nobel Prize. Instead of choosing the best methods to prove his device his real, Rossi chooses the worst ones -- exactly the ones a scammer would select. And he won't allow independent tests or replication, the very things that Marshall and Warren *insisted* upon and which proved their case. So much for that example. Many of the others are equally glib and inapplicable. It would take too long to go through them all.
