It is institutional incompetence<http://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2011/07/institutional-incompetence-conspiracy.html>. The remedy for institutional incompetence isn't to target the naysayers but rather the institutions that produce them in such abundance and with such reckless authority.
Indeed, we are dealing with a meta-institutional question. I believe the answer is that human rights must be redefined at a level so fundamental that all existing institutions, each with their own presumptions of exactly what laundry list should constitute "human rights" and how selectively such laundry lists should be enforced, are reformalized and sorted into separate human ecologies so that they may be treated as controlled experiments testing their respective formalizations as hypotheses. Toward this end, I propose an operational definition of "Republic" as the only legitimate form of government: A Republican form of government has the primary duty, above all others, is to ensure it is practical for consenting adults to leave its jurisdiction to form a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2012/12/10/the-inconceivable-embarrassment-from-cold-fusion/ > > (blog is about recent replications in the news. powerful closing comments) > > "What is one to make of all this? The first major point is academia > has utterly let the world down. Now that LENR obviously functions > there are almost no experimental experts available or organized > training underway. The world economy is completely out of the loop, > so far. The second is governments worldwide have set up a patent > barrier, which is still in place that keeps the potential dowsed down. > Only the very brave and eccentric have ventured out with Andrea Rossi > leading the way. > > At the human level the price of condemnation is beginning to show. > For those who followed the press, media and academic lead to condemn > Pons and Fleischmann, while some knew full well that a few very > careful experimenters were able to replicate the work, the guilt is > the harm done to science progress, intellectual expansion and economic > growth. > > At the frontier of knowledge there is no disgrace at an experiment > that fails. Disgrace comes from denial of the opportunity for > research and experimentation. Denial of a venture into the unknown is > one of the ultimate scientific dishonesties." > >
