On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > I guess I was giving them too much credit. But deep down they must know that something outside of their belief system could be true. Still I guess you are right, but in a way this makes it even harder to convince them and even more pointless in trying. And if so they may change their belief either after it has been available in stores for a few years, or never, in the same way that some people deny the holocaust etc... > > 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. > Yes , but few skeptics remained for flight once it was publicly available for a decade or so surely? But many were not immediately convinced either. This then leads one to wonder how it must have felt for those ardent skeptics to slowly come round. And I wonder if any would have spoken honestly about it, or merely covered it up with technicalities or claiming that they really thought of it first etc... > 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. > Maybe we should call them retarded, in a sense differing from the politically incorrect sense of course. Retarding progress, truth and intelligence. At least the stigma of such a label might reduce the attractiveness of such close minded thought patterns which the label skeptic does not. John
