James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On the other hand . . . Fleischmann worked in government-funded >> institutions all of his life >> > > And not until he retired was he allowed to pursue the breakthrough. > That is incorrect. He was working on cold fusion when he was still at the university -- you can see his affiliation in the papers. They never objected because he was tenured. Not to mention an FRS. Some professors, such as Bockris, met with opposition despite tenure, but most did not. Mizuno met with opposition and had to spend his own money, but no one tried to stop him or any other Japanese professor. If it were not for the tenure system, cold fusion would never have been replicated. Most of the replications were done by tenured professors using university labs. Pons put some of his own money into the experiment, but the equipment and lab space was at U. Utah, so most of it was public money. You could not possibly get tenure if you talked about cold fusion today. You would never be hired in the first place. That is why there are no professors under 60 doing cold fusion. The field will die out soon if this does not change. - Jed
