At 06:27 PM 12/26/2011, Mary Yugo wrote:
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Aussie Guy E-Cat
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
What no comment on this:
"My change of mind was a direct result of talking with Dr. Dennis
Bushnell, the Chief Scientist for NASA Langley who has assured me
that over 100 experiments worldwide indicate that LENR is real,
capable of producing energy much greater that chemical reactions,
with minimal radiation"
I'd be happy to comment after Mr. Opdenaker confirms he wrote it and
allows questions. At the moment, it's nothing but an unverified
email exchange with a Mr.X, an unidentified party, on a weird
believer-oriented web site full of silly comments from obviously
ignorant participants. It's also a web site whose owner is unknown.
I will say immediately that Dr. Bushnell is entitled to his opinion
but until he shown the most spectacular experiments and answers the
critiques to them, believing anything because he says so is simply
an "appeal to authority" logical fallacy. Far as I know, Dr.
Bushnell has not repeated and independently confirmed any of the
experiments. If he had, and had done so properly, his opinion, if
the quote is accurate, would be worthy of more consideration.
Mary, Bushnell is not talking about Rossi on that point, and that you
seem to think he is, shows how easily you are misunderstanding this
field. LENR is real. That says practically nothing about whether or
not Rossi is real.
Rossi is not established as to science. There have been no
independent replications, and the original work hasn't been published
in the normal way, and much of what Rossi does remains secret. Secret
means we don't know, that we can only speculate.
People seem inclined to speculate in ways that confirm what they
already believe. Amazing how we do that, eh?
