Hi Mark, Thanks for the welcome. Replies inline.
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint < [email protected]> wrote: > Welcome Eric,**** > > Thx for the feedback… this seems to be your first post. A few questions > if I may…**** > > 1) How long have you been monitoring this forum before posting? That is > not a bad thing; most are a little timid to post until after having > monitored the forum for a little while; getting to know the ‘personalities’. > I've been reading the occasional archived thread on this list since October 2010, when I first started taking note of claims regarding LENR. I've been on the list for only a short while now -- perhaps a week or two. > **** > > 2) did you read about why this forum was founded? > I read this link when I first joined: http://amasci.com/weird/vmore.html. I remember mention of the list being founded to provide a sympathetic forum for examining LENR and related topics, in light of the extreme skepticism one encounters elsewhere. I personally don't believe that the skepticism seen here amounts to even a small amount of what you'll find in other forums. For that, read this link and the comments that follow: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/12/the_nuclear_physics_of_why_we.php The above article and the comments are a great example of capable people ignoring the empirical evidence entirely and going on, unscientifically in my opinion, to reason from first principles, in effect, that the researchers gathering this evidence are incompetent. It's not quite clear to me how they don't feel a little nervous doing this, but apparently they don't. **** > > 3) have you read the rules or guideline for participating in the forum? > I think so. But please send me a note offline if I've missed something important! Cheers, Eric
