Widespread evidence for LENR already lies buried in the filing cabinets and computer archives of universities, commercial companies, and research organisations, across the world. I'm not talking about results from specific CF or LENR experiments, but of all the oddball or slightly puzzling results, from ostensibly unrelated fields, that are either explained away in some cavalier fashion, or simply ignored. For instance, back in the 90s I was shown data confirming accidental transmutation, and physically induced radiation, resulting from experiments in hot gas erosion of steel. Researchers had dismissed the results, at the time, because they made no sense to them - and so the trials were abandoned. I was later shown the results by an engineering lecturer from the university that had conducted the tests – because I had tentatively mentioned the possibility of LENR effects in some other R&D work we were both involved with (this was after we had experienced a bizarre “heat-after-death” incident). It seems he had always been puzzled by the data (hence holding on to it), but other researchers had classed the results as “outliers”, putting them down to unknown errors in procedure – so everybody else was happy to simply throw them in the waste paper basket. The results were what Charles Fort referred to as “Damned Data” – i.e. the data that falls outside the “established” models of how the world is supposed to work. All scientists claim that they would always sieze on anomalies, and pledge to investigate them further – but in practice many will just ignore anything that doesn't fit neatly inside their preconceived notions of reality. Of course, the lecturer in question was coming up to retirement, and understandably didn’t want to jeopardise his position – so wished to keep a low profile. He had said nothing to anyone about the results, until our meeting, and did not intend to pursue the subject afterwards. So what did I do, following this peculiar HAD event? Unfortunately, the tests in question could not be talked about publicly (and still can't) – due to all sorts of confidentiality restrictions. Nevertheless, after some soul searching, I did actually bring up the subject of LENR with my supervisor of the time. The whole idea freaked him out – so he told me, in no uncertain terms, to shut up about it. And so I did – since, like everybody else, I had to eat and keep a roof over my head. How much more aberrent, anomalous (but highly pertinent) field data is out there, languishing in files marked “False Results. Ignore” ? And how many more people are sitting on data that they dare not speak about publicly, since they don't relish the idea of making “career limiting” statements ?
- Leo
