There is a lot more to the Romney/U.Utah/BYU story than you acknowledge, and none of it favorable to Romney. Voting for Romney because of Cold Fusion is a little like voting for Alfred E. Neuman for President because you like freckles. Except that Romney doesn't even have the freckles.
Cheers, Lawry On Nov 6, 2012, at 12:49 PM, James Bowery wrote: > I've decided to vote for Mitt Romney and enthusiastically recommend that > others, including die-hard Obama and Ron Paul supporters, vote for him. I do > with with a vague feeling of nausea because I know I'll be misunderstood. > Please let me explain. I'm not kidding. I'm serious as a heart attack about > this endorsement: The government's scientific establishment has been > suppressing a technology that would disintermediate virtually all centralized > structures of civilization: cold fusion. The general elite attitude has been > that something that can save the world dare not come out of a podunk > university -- let alone one in Utah. There's also the vague unconscious sense > that disintermediation on that scale would upset just about every > establishment apple-cart, but that's not the proximate reason for the > suppression. It's really just religious piety showing obescience to the Ivy > League that's the bottom line on why we don't, today, have a completely > clean, decentralized and virtually limitless energy source you can by at Home > Depot for a few hundred dollars. This is so entrenched in the scientific > establishment -- so much of the "church of physics" claim to piety depends on > maintaining this falsehood that it really would take Presidential attention > to counteract it enough that just private capital, let alone public funding, > would be allocated appropriate to the potential. > > So what has this to do with Mitt Romney? > > Mitt Romney has made a comment, about as ignorant is you can get, about cold > fusion that is, despite its ignorance, a positive comment. Understand that to > the government's physics establishment this is tantamount to a candidate for > Pope proclaiming Beelzebub a candidate for Sainthood. Moreover, being a > Mormon, he is far from biased against a major discovery coming out of Utah. > Although in this particular case the Mormon university, BYU's scientist, > Steven Jones, played a significant role in helping the scientific > establishment suppress cold fusion, that bit of history is obscure enough > that it falls well beyond the abject level of knowledge that Mitt Romney has > displayed about cold fusion.
