> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Jed Rothwell > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Gene went from a top academic career to working in a > > warehouse at night to feed his family. > > > > He was a science writer. Respectable, yes. Top academic career, > no. > > > > > > > Fleischmann and Pons had a terrible time. > > > > Too much money? They had better funding after the CF > announcement than at any previous time in their careers. > > > > I think it traumatized Pons. It did not bother Fleischmann as > > much because he is a tough, cynical person who had nightmare > > experiences during WWII. The Gestapo beat his father to death, > > and he himself barely escaped. > > > > Your arguments for cold fusion are aiming for the gut, not the > mind... > > > > He told me that he knew calling that press conference would > > mean the end of his career. > > > > It would seem the reports on the sociology of CF are about as > reliable as those on the science. It was not the end of his > career. He was already resigned from his academic position at > Southampton, so he had no job to lose. As it happens, he worked > in a well funded lab in France until 1995, when he retired. > France is not Siberia. How is that the end of his career? > > > > > He knew he would be vilified and ridiculed for the rest of his > > life. > > > > So he says now, but his self-satisfied grinning during the press > conferences after the announcement tell a different story. > > > > > He went into it knowing what would happen. > > > > Right. That his research would be well funded until retirement. > Until the announcement, P&F were funding the experiments > themselves. > > > > > That was an act of courage. > > > > It was an act of fear. Fear that someone else would get priority.
It is good some debunking of Rothwell's fantastic history.
