Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint <[email protected]> wrote:
> We met one day for sushi, and I brought two or three peer-reviewed papers > to give him, since he kept using the excuse that unless its peer-reviewed, > and at a reputable journal, he wasn’t interested. > You say these were peer-reviewed, but he rejected them because they were not peer-reviewed?!? I don't get it. Maybe he thought the journals were not reputable enough. Not peer-reviewed enough maybe? Wrong peers? People seem to think peer-review is magic pixie dust that makes all claims true. Sometimes people like this person feel that if the journal prints something about cold fusion, that makes it disreputable by definition. > I’m sure he is extremely intelligent and knowledgeable, but I lost all > respect for him as a scientist at that point… > Maybe you should cut him some slack. people can be rational about some things and irrational about others. I know many smart people who do not believe in cold fusion. If I lost respect for them, I would feel contempt for the whole world, the way Rossi does. In his 1940 cabinet, Churchill kept on many of Chamberlain's appointees. He explained: "If one were dependent on the people who had been right in the last few years, what a tiny handful one would have to depend on." - Jed
