I wrote:
> The only time I ever saw him uncomfortable or unassertive was when the > people from Amoco showed him their results. He turned green and fled the > room! It is a fond memory. > I mean this paper, presented at ICCF4: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Lautzenhiscoldfusion.pdf Huizenga refused to discuss these results or anything to the authors. I am not suggesting he actually believed these results. My guess is that he was thinking: "Shit, another one! From a major lab! Will these people never stop this nonsense?" It was fun watching him squirm, but I did not get the impression he doubted his own convictions. To him, Amoco was More Trouble. More pathological crap. As he said in the book, his job as a the DoE hatchet-man was to get rid of these findings and kill the field as quickly as possible before any money was wasted on it. I am sure he was sincere when he said that cold fusion cannot be real, and theory overrules experiments. He was not dishonest about his beliefs. He was somewhat dishonest with his political tactics. He played hardball. For example, when Miles told him he had no positive results, Huizenga added that to the ERAB report. Before the report was published, Miles contacted him again and said he was now seeing excess heat. Huizenga did not change the report. To take another example, Huizenga said that if someone detected helium commensurate with heat he might change his views. Miles and others did detect helium, and they told Huizenga that, in person, at ICCF4 and elsewhere. He never acknowledged it. I am sure he did not believe it, any more than he believed the excess heat and tritium from Amoco. I am sure no prominent skeptic believes any of these results. You would have to be crazy to secretly think these results are real, but to go on in public, year after year, accusing the researches of fraud and incompetence. - Jed
