Please expand on the statement: "There is a lot more to the Romney/U.Utah/BYU story than you acknowledge, and none of it favorable to Romney."
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 5:49 PM, de Bivort Lawrence <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > >
