On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> just delusioned and selectively blind like what roland benabou describe > >> >> I think groupthink is a much better explanation for belief in cold fusion than it is for skepticism. Mainstream science is an extremely diverse and diffuse entity that actually encourages and rewards innovation and novelty and disruptive ideas supported by good evidence. But the True Believers in cold fusion are fairly tightly knit group that discourages dissent, and embraces cold fusion's many inconsistencies. It's the reason so many cold fusion advocates (though not all) accepted such an obviously unlikely claim as Rossi's with almost no scrutiny, and from someone with a history of fraud, but none in physics.
