Aussie Guy E-Cat <[email protected]> wrote: Jed why do you bother? MY has an agenda to discredit everything about LENR. > Discussion is futile.
I agree it would be futile to try to persuade MY or Cude or the other extremists. I gave up trying to do that a decade ago. I say these things as way to sharpen my own thought processes. To refine the arguments. I expect that in the coming months, my audience will expand. I have been invited to address some groups in Atlanta and Florida, for example. I am still learning about the attitudes of both supporters and opponents. For example, it did not occur to me until recently that what they fear is not that cold fusion is real, but rather than the whole world will go crazy thinking it is real, in a kind of Tulipmania. I would feel something similar if U.S. public schools decided to teach creationism instead of evolution. From MY's point of view, thousands of sensible, trained, capable people are suddenly throwing aside standards and joining ""a cult of fervent half-wits" (as Slakey called cold fusion). They think a few scheming criminal lowlifes such as Rossi managed to con a growing circle of people. As I said, it is like Tulipmania or the 2008 stock market crash caused by home loan lending abuse. If I thought something like that was happening, it would annoy me, but I would not spend hours every week trying to stop it. I would ignore it. I work in favor of causes I support and political candidates I support. I do not devote effort to oppose things that I think are mistaken, or a waste of time. If I thought that a few thousand scientists had thrown away objective standards, and they were wasting their time, I would shrug, shake my head, and ignore them. MY, Park and some others take it as a personal affront that anyone would disagree with them, or dare to believe something they think must be wrong. I do not understand this attitude. I do not care how many people disagree with cold fusion, as long as we can find enough powerful and wealthy supporters to bring the technology to fruition. I have attracted 2 million visits LENR-CANR.org, made by tens of thousands of people. They, among others, are developing the technology. There are ~7 billion people in the world who have *not* visited. I don't care about them. I do not care what they think. As long as they do not interfere, it makes no difference to me. We will need broad public support in the future, but we do not need it now. - Jed
