Ron Kita <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also. Where is Mark Gibbs of Forbes????? > > When the body of evidence is larger than ever....Why is Forbes silent??? > > . . . > There was no evidence presented at this conference, or by Rossi for that matter, that was more convincing than the peer-reviewed published evidence from 1992. What we are seeing today is the same phenomenon on a larger scale with better reprodicability. That is encouraging because it means we are closer to commercialization. But it is not more convincing. The first small scale experiments by the Curies proved that nuclear fission produces far more energy per gram of fuel than any chemical reaction. They proved that as irrefutably as the first nuclear bomb did. The scale makes no difference. As long as you can be sure the calorimetry is correct, you can be sure cold fusion exists. People who doubt the calorimetry published by Fleischmann, McKubre or Miles do not know anything about calorimetry. You can safely ignore everything they say. People who "do not believe" in cold fusion are willfully ignoring widely replicated experimental proof. They are ignoring the scientific method. Gibbs' most recent articles show that he does not understand the scientific method, the difference between theories and hypotheses, and many other junior-high school level concepts. He is ignorant, and proud of his own ignorance. He has no business writing about science or technology. People like him are a lost cause. It is a waste of time trying to teach them. It is best to ignore them. The editors at Sci. Am., Taubes, and Lemonick at Time magazine are also lost causes. I do not understand why science journalism attracts so many people who never learned elementary science. It is surprising how much high level, expensive, bogus, ignorant foolishness is sold on the open market. I once read an expensive "white paper" study on the future of computing published by a leading U.S. consultant. It was published around 1978 and sold to leading U.S. corporations for thousands of bucks, I think. The authors did not understand the functional differences between hard disks, ROM and RAM, or the difference between operating system software and applications. When I was around 13 and learning to program I knew more about computers than these people did. - Jed
