Jeff Berkowitz <[email protected]> wrote: We have the naysayer scientists who just know it isn't possible, and > dismiss anything without such inspection, just as I wouldn't spend too much > time looking over a new perpetual motion machine. Can't be done, don't > waste anyone's time. >
They cause little harm. > We may have the evil forces of the current energy cartel . . . > I do not think they have played any role. They do not know that cold fusion exists. > I think that's it? Who do you think shuts down discussions -- the > naysayers or the evil forces? > I know exactly who, when, where and how this research has been derailed. Ask any researcher! They tell you the same kind of thing, time after time. There are examples in books and in the LENR-CANR archives, such as Melvin Miles describing how they assigned him to the stockroom, or the time they hauled Taleyarkhan before the U.S. Congress and demanded his tax returns and personal correspondence. Here, let me list the ways: Intimidation, harassment, sabotaging equipment, publishing false data. Threatening to deport researchers. Destroying peoples' reputations by publishing in the mass media assertions that they are criminals, frauds and lunatics. Destroying the reputations of professors and graduate students at TAMU and elsewhere with false accusations of fraud. Threat of firing people, actually firing people, cutting funding, telling researchers that if they publish results or attend meetings they will be summarily fired. Canceling meetings, canceling publications at the last minute, interfering in normal funding. Ridicule, character assassination, and misinformation and nonsense in the mass media, Wikipedia and elsewhere. Outright lies such as: Cold fusion was never replicated; no peer-reviewed papers were ever published; the effect is very small; there have been proven fraudulent experiments (other than MIT's). Perversion of the peer review system described by Schwinger: "The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editors’ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous referees. The replacement of impartial reviewing by censorship will be the death of science." And so on, and so forth. This is hardly unique to cold fusion. Such things are quite common in academic science. This is not history. All of these activities continue unabated up to the present moment. The people doing this include, for example, Ouellette and the editors at *Scientific American*, the people I described in the document "The DOE lies again," Richard Garwin, Robert Park and many others. I often cite Park because he openly brags about his role in suppressing cold fusion and destroying people's lives and careers. Most of the others prefer to keep a low profile. Yes, some of these people are evil. But mainly they are very, *very*stupid. They are like Donald Trump and the other "birthers." Believe me, I have met them. You can't hide stupidity, and as Schiller said, the gods themselves contend in vain against it. The one positive thing I can say is that most of them are sincere. They honestly believe that cold fusion is criminal fraud and lunacy, and it was never been replicated or published, etc. blah, blah. I suppose if I believed that I might be in favor of suppressing it. However I hope that I would have enough sense to check the peer-reviewed literature first before publishing such extreme accusations in the *Washington Post* or the *Scientific American*. - Jed
