Mary Yugo <[email protected]> wrote:
> I disagree. Nobody can protect their jobs by suppressing the > greatest discoveries of the last century. Lots of people made tons of money suppressing the greatest discoveries of the last century! The dairy industry suppressed pasteurization from 1860 to 1917; the tobacco industry stopped cancer research; everyone ganged up to prevent H. pylori and the MRI. Okay, they failed in the end, but none of those people suffered. Some of them are still in charge of major institutions, and still making a killing. Heck, Microsoft squashed a large fraction of the reliable PC software in the 1980s, replacing it with dreck. Bill Gates became the richest man in the world mainly by suppressing good ideas and good products such as WordPerfect. He still has the money, although he is presently at a trial testifying about WordPerfect. For one thing they'll always triumph if they're real. That is incorrect. In most cases, when a discovery such as the transistor is revealed, a careful search of the literature shows that it has been discovered and forgotten many times in the past. See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJcomparison.pdf That is also impossible to test or falsify. How can you be sure that nothing has been lost? If something was lost, you wouldn't know about it, would you? "Everyone who is not here please raise your hand." For all you know, 99% of good ideas are "strangled in the crib," as Townes put it, when opponents tried to prevent him from developing the maser. Learn some history. Learn some logic. - Jed
