Vorl Bek <[email protected]> wrote: > > Of course it does. Do you think GE will be beating down Rossi's > doors because of this one test? >
No, as I said, they know nothing about this. Again let me urge you to look at history. Look after Marshall proved that Helicobacter pylor people ignored him, ridiculed him and attacked him, instead of looking at the evidence. This is human nature. You cannot judge the reality of cold fusion by listing people and organizations who reject the findings, because they refuse to look. Ignorant people have no right to any opinion. Willfully ignorant people are contemptible. Deal with that fact. You can cite GE or the DoE all you like. You can cite Nature magazine, Obama, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, every professor at MIT, Harvard, Yale and Georgia Tech., every engineer in every Fortune 500 company, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. It makes no difference who you are talking about. It makes no difference how smart, or famous or wealthy they are. If they have not read the literature *they know nothing*and their *opinion has zero value,* and must be ignored. People cannot know facts or do science by ESP. I think it is likely the test will be worthless - probably faked > in some way by Rossi - because Rossi has the reputation of being a > liar . . . This is not about Rossi. It is Levi at al. Rossi has no magical ability to make watt meters work wrong. You yourself said that no problem has been found. > , and because LENR, if it were real, would have more going for > it than 23 years of anecdotes and laboratory curiosities. > Why would it have more going for it? Electric incandescent lights went for 25 years with no progress after they were discovered in the 1850s. High temperature superconductors are still mainly laboratory curiosities. More to the point, how can you expect researchers to make progress when their funding is cut and they are fired? This happened to Mizuno, Miles and Boss and most others. There is tremendous opposition to this research because of academic politics. Robert Park and other go around destroying people's reputations and firing them for even talking about it! People cannot conduct experiments without funding and academic freedom. > That seems pretty evenhanded to me. > No, you are ignoring history and the fact that cold fusion suffers from rabid opposition and suppression. If you have any doubt about that, read the Scientific American, or New Scientist, or ask Robert Park. He will tell you why he goes around pulling strings to have scientists fired. He is not shy about his views. He will tell you that cold fusion researchers are all lunatics, frauds and criminals, and they should be fired. He will also tell you he has read nothing, so he joins the long list of nutcases who think they can do science by ESP, and whose opinion must be ignored. > You are confusing me with somebody else; I have no opinion of Levi > one way or the other. > YOU said that! You said you think Levi sold out for a few thousand euros, but he has plausible deniability so he is not worried. You said that is the current hypothesis. Were you only reporting that? Do you not believe it yourself? - Jed
