Mark Gibbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's interesting that you both want the mainstream media to pay attention > to cold fusion yet you complain when we don't write *exactly* as you think > we should write. > This has nothing to do with what I think. I am not the issue here. I am suggesting you write something that resembles the claims in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. You ignore what the experiments show and what the researchers claim. You should read McKubre, Storms or Fleischmann and try to summarize *what they claim*. > You complain endlessly about "sloppy journalism" and how the theories of > cold fusion aren't clearly laid out . . . > This is not about theory. Cold fusion is an experimental finding. There are no widely accepted theories to explain it. I see no need for you to discuss theory, any more than you would with high temperature superconducting, which also cannot be explained. On the other hand, everyone agrees that the experiments produce thousands of times more energy than a chemical reaction with the same mass reactants can produce, and that there are no chemical changes in the cell. So chemistry is ruled out. That is shown in hundreds of papers, in research replicated thousands of times by thousands of researchers. So I think that is what you should describe, rather than merely saying they "output more energy than is put into them." Also note that in many cases, no one puts energy into the reactions. (as you think they should be) for the average reader who you obviously look > down upon (Craig tellingly dismisses them as "establishment goons" ... > You misunderstand. Cold fusion researchers are the establishment. As Martin said, "we are painfully conventional people." Martin was an FRS; Bockris literally wrote the book on Modern Electrochemistry; Miles was Fellow at China Lake. Most cold fusion researchers are tenured professors and a large fraction of them are distinguished, leading experts in their fields. > an ad hominem attack if ever there was one) yet you're perpetually angry > at the lack of attention and funding for cold fusion! > I am angry at people who make sloppy, ignorant claims about an important scientific breakthrough. I am angry at lazy journalists and scientists who do not make the effort to learn the facts, and instead write their own made-up version of things. I am strong believer in doing things by the numbers, following rules, and doing your homework. Check and recheck. In short, I am a programmer. Also a translator and tech writer, which is why I am such a pedant about grammar and English prose. - Jed
