Another angle on this I just realized was Neocon insularity: If there is any group of people inside the beltway that is capable of blocking out reality and forging ahead with whatever agenda they want, it is the Neocons who got the US into the recent wars over "Al Queda in Iraq" and "Sadam's WMDs". The physics establishment's insularity from reality is like 10DBi earplugs compared to the Neocon ability to completely synthesize multimedia virtual reality and violate layers of bureaucracy -- to the point that large groups of high officials in the CIA and DoD threaten to resign -- all in pursuit of an agenda.
In this particular instance, we have the University of Missouri that has just been endowed to work on cold fusion as a result of an Israeli company and a prominent American Jew -- and that University is forging ahead. Now, the fact that the Neocons don't need to block out reality in this instance won't deter them. They are consumate realists when they want to be. Here we have an opportunity for Israel and their Mormon allies to come out smelling like roses. If you think the Neocons can't absolutely crush the scientific establishment in politics, you haven't a clue. On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:06 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>wrote: > >> James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> Mitt Romney has made a comment, about as ignorant is you can get, about >>> cold fusion that is, despite its ignorance, a positive comment. >> >> >> ...This is entirely up to the physics establishment. >> > > Even if the physics establishment maintains its death-grip on funding, > Romney's faux pas -- ignorant as it was -- is the kind of excuse private > funding sources -- particularly those friendly to Romney and looking for a > way to discredit Obama -- can use to shield them from the "fringe kookery" > smears that do, indeed, frighten many private financiers. Of course, if > you're talking about investors that are friendly to Obama's politics, they > will be even less likely to invest in cold fusion. > > I did go out of my way to talk about _private_ funding sources in my > original post. > > > >> I think Romney had cold fusion mixed up with HTSC. >> > > I did say twice in the original post, and reiterated in this one, that > Romney's comment was "ignorance". I even called it "abject". > > The point is there is an enormous universe of terms he could have confused > with HTSC and the one he chose was not only a technology that many private > funding sources are looking for an excuse to invest in, but it is one that > bears directly on the credibility of Romney's primary weakness within the > Republican Party's very influential evangelical base: Mormon "kookery". > >
