Mary Yugo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Isn't there a more likely reason that fits the Occam's Razor principle? > That they couldn't get a robust and reproducible result from the devices > and gave up because they figured that it didn't really work? That is not a likely reason because it is factually wrong. They published additional papers showing progress. I suggest you stop speculating and do your homework. Read what happened. Learn. Find out. Stop babbling about subjects you know nothing about. You make yourself look silly, and you are annoying. Keep doing that, and most people will block your posts. This is not a forum for unfounded speculation. The Internet gives access to huge amounts of information, so please avail yourself of it. I was not aware of the history related by Beene, but it sounds plausible. Such developments cannot be analyzed by appealing to Occam's Razor. Corporate decisions and policies are often Byzantine. They are inexplicable. Not subject to the rules of logic or science. I note that elsewhere you again claim that cold fusion replicated by Thermacore might have resulted in a Nobel Prize. People who say that know nothing about academic politics and nothing about what happens to cold fusion researchers who announce positive results. They are not given Nobel prizes. They are harassed, denounced in the mass media, defunded, demoted and fired. If they work for the government, and Robert Park finds out about them, their career will be over. He told a cheering crowd of people at the APS that he and his friends will "root out and fire" anyone who so much as *talks about* cold fusion. He meant that. He did that. He will keep doing that until he dies. That is why no one does cold fusion research. Like many subjects, cold fusion is extremely unpopular because of academic politics. People who try to study such subjects are given the frozen boot (as they say in Russia). Please try to understand this is the real world, not a Walt Disney movie. This is about money and power. People do not hand over money and power. You have to destroy them to get it. If you fail to destroy them, they will destroy you. No one in academia gives a fart about whether cold fusion is real or not, or whether it might be a useful source of energy, or whether it violates theory. That stuff never crossed their minds. The only question they ever considered is: "What is in this for me?" - Jed
