On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:43 PM, *** Craig Brown *** <[email protected]>wrote:
> Gibbs seems utterly desperate to explain LENR away as just an > unrepeatable anomaly > I'm not so sure. I would have guessed the opposite to be the case. In this instance he might be responding to pressure as a journalist to keep a professional distance from LENR and not become too associated with what has been called "junk science." Perhaps he's worried about his credibility in the eyes of his readers or his editors. But in any event he does not appear to have taken the time to read the literature, or at some deeper level he doesn't take it seriously. There are multiple reports of reproducibility. > and as usual “Mary” is one of the first to get the word “scam” in there > somewhere. I find it curious how the noisy negativists get so over the top > obsessed with ramming their opinions down everyone’s throat. > In referring to people by name like this and in using this kind of language, no doubt out of an understandable wish to limit or prevent negativism, you're resorting to it yourself. I'm new to this forum and defer to those who have been here for years for direction on this kind of thing, but I think we should try to maintain a respectful tone.
