John Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
> When will they finally realize that Rossi may have something? >> > > They always knew he might . . . > I doubt that. I cannot read minds, but I get a sense that Shanahan, Nate Lewis or Robert Park are certain they are right. It has never crossed their minds cold fusion might exist. (I don't take seriously Park's equivocations from years ago.) They are as certain that cold fusion does not exist as I am certain of the conservation of energy or the Theory of Evolution. Mary Yugo may have some slight belief in cold fusion, but I am sure she thinks that Rossi is nothing but a scam artist. She dismisses the report from Levi. . . . but they are skeptics and will always oppose any advancement or > change until it is over one way or the other. > Always opposed, period. That's how these people are, and have been at all times, in all cultures. People actually in favor of progress or change are always a minority, usually a despised minority. William Buckley made no bones about his opposition to change: "A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it." He got that wrong. Most of the time, most people are inclined to stop progress. As Martin said: "People do not want progress. It makes them uncomfortable. They don’t want it, and they shan’t have it." - Jed
