Post #7 Slight digression. The LENR crowd of scientists is accused of shoddy science ,unclear thinking and bad setups, which ruined Pons Fleischmann and others. We have also to be aware, that eg the Nobel Brian Josephson supports cold fusion, but also Homeopathy. And remember Crick, who admitted ‘seeing’ the DNA under LSD. So there are different types of scientists:
Mainly a) the logical-rigid type and b) the intuitive type, who have their respective merits, but do not understand each other. The rigid type is now by far the most dominant, and academia is structured along this rigidity. If You do not follow the rules, you’re thrown out. I think a lot of the LENR-crowd knows this, but cannot express consistently, what the essence of this rift is. Peer-reviewing has a lot to do with this. The reviewers are the gate-keepers of this, and, you guess, a lot of money on behalf of Elsevier, Springer etc is involved to keep this system going. The effect of this is that the system became sclerotic. Interestingly enough Chinese, Indian and to a lesser degree the Japanese do not obey the rule, and present at times quite outlandish claims, which the western community rejects. Sort of a culture-war, where the western gatekeepers are the warriors, and the Easterners, who try to integrate their thinking into the scientific canon, do not understand what is going on. End of digression. ________________________________
