Regarding Ethan #84 There is cutting insight to be drawn from the reactions of the professional science cast as they post about the Rossi test.
I am a stiffed necked sort who rejects arbitrary discipline. This reaction has kindled in me a resentment of a kind of authority that spreads the scent of charred flesh wide across the land. It seems to me, the professional scientists act like high priests of some perverse science based religion. They must fiercely protect their doctrinaire from a growing heresy, a pestilence of the mind, a plague of skeptics that are marching fast to oppose their holy interests. How could a mere tinkerer teach them about what they have studied for so long? Ethan, their high arch bishop states: “There are some people who buy into the “science doesn’t know everything” angle, and think that a tinkerer will show us the way forward. Maybe this is it, they say, dismissing what would be scientific tests.” This experiment is a threat to the faith of their followers. What they fear the most is that they will lose the dossal faith and sycophant adoration of the faithful of science. The high arch bishop states again: “There are others who loved this on hearing it the first time, and that’s their position on it: they love it, period. No evidence — not even outright evidence of fraud — will change their minds.” This blessed ministry fears that they have lost the power of their sanctified authority. Doctrine is being ignored. How will their students accept what they say in class tomorrow? Blood must be let. Bodies must be burnt at the stake of ideological purity. A clarion call has issued forth far and wide for a holy crusade of the faithful to cleanse the land of heresy and disbelief. >From the arch bishop again as he speaks ex cathedra from his pulpit: “For my own perspective, I think we have a responsibility as scientists to tell the public what the science is, what good science is, and whether this is good science or not. (It’s not.) And then, to tell them what good science would look like, and demand it. Otherwise, it’s not worth listening to.” These special men, these chosen few have a sacred obligation to preserve, protect, and defend the hallowed bastions of their certain truths that this chosen priesthood has so carefully crafted over long dark centuries of supreme effort and toil. Their truth can bear no affront; their certainty can stand no injury from an ignorant rabble as these ill-informed miscreants chafe under the oppressive weight of their priestly yoke. Ethan laments in the end: “I don’t know whether people need Gods or heroes; some do, others don’t. But we all need the truth.” Yes, the divine truth that only Ethan can really know. On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Alan Fletcher wrote: > > ps http://phys.org/news/2013-05-**rossi-e-cat-energy-density-** >> higher.html<http://phys.org/news/2013-05-rossi-e-cat-energy-density-higher.html> >> Nice diagram! (Gee .. they cropped some stuff off it) >> > > They darn well should have acknowledged you. > > - Jed > >
