Hehe...so you DO read Vortex after all - I had suspected you may be paying attention Mark ;)
If mainstream media pundits such as yourself want to
continually present cold fusion in a less than positive light through a
series of badly researched and establishment skewed opinion pieces then
you are doing your readership a disservice, for example - in the latest
Forbes article you still refer to those with an alternative opinion of
the 1989 Pons and Fleischmann saga as "conspiracy theorists" knowing
well the implied baggage this carries and that your readership will
immediately want to distance themselves from this position.
Here's a radical thought, why not tell your readers
about the many other researchers in all corners of the world who have
produced clear and unambiguous scientific results of excess heat - the
results of which are documented in various papers online. I highlighted
this to you over a year ago, but still you have done nothing to address
this obvious gap in the realistic portrayal of the advancements in cold
fusion / LENR still currently being presented by Forbes, and just for
clarity, I am not referring to Rossi or Defkalion here.
I am definitely not angry as you wrongly suggest,
instead I would say it's mildly frustrating to continually witness
supposedly educated scientific journalists and influential media
commentators focus in on the more controversial figures in the field
such as Rossi, meanwhile ignoring everything else and boiling the
discussion down to a few soundbites and pictures of snakes and clowns.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2012/02/14/e-cat-proof-challenge-1000000-is-a-clownerie/
If there's a lack of attention and funding to cold
fusion / LENR then it is most certainly not being helped by mainstream
media publications such as Forbes (among many others) who rather than
leaving the discussion open are appearing to reinforce the "swamp gas"
explanation for what is already a scientifically proven phenomena. Time
is moving on, it's no longer 1989, It's 2012 - say after me "It's OK to
say in public that LENR is a real phenomena".
It is not my fault that Forbes or the other
establishment press have chosen to ignore the rest of the LENR field and
to zero in on Rossi et al. I suppose writing about the more
controversial claims like Rossi's must sell advertising better while
providing an outlet for the establishment biased Forbes readers to bash
those pesky cold fusion conspiracy theorists in the comments section
while polishing their USB coffee-cup warmers.
Forbes (as a publication), has a long standing track record of pouring scorn on anything that's even slightly controversial in the field of alternative energy. I wouldn't expect anything less.
