Going through my notes again . . . I should say there is still some hope at SPAWAR that after-hours or weekend research may be allowed. They are still negotiating, so let us not raise a big stink about this. No point in riling up the opposition more than usual.
They are discouraged. As I said, most cold fusion research is done on a shoestring, tucked away in a corner were the people in charge will not notice it. You have to keep a low profile in this business. So please do not write letters to the Navy demanding this be allowed. You will only make things worse. I will greatly regret relaying this news here if people bring pressure on the Navy, and the Navy makes life even more miserable for cold fusion researchers. The skeptics should feel free to keep writing to authorities. Mary Yugo should continue to respond to any mass media article in the comment section with unfounded, vile allegations of fraud and guilt by association, written under a a pen name. It is only words, and words have no consequences. You cannot make things worse than you already have. Maintain your unshakable conviction that anything you disagree with, you do not understand, or you have not bothered to read must be "pathological science" or fraud. We get it. Research you don't like must not be allowed. Ever. Even on weekends, done by 85-year-old professors. You want stasis and the end of science, and that is what you will get. As Martin Fleischmann said: "People do not want progress. It makes them uncomfortable. They don't want it, and they shan't have it." - Jed
