blaze spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: Hardly the criticism of the comments here isn't much better. You guys are > just resorting to pointless insults. > > I will say one thing about the paper, they're very very right on front. > The so called "independent investigators" . . . >
I think you are missing the point. The independence of the investigators is not an appropriate subject for a physics paper. It is okay for a discussion group or even a magazine article, but in physics, personal friendships should not be an issue. Many physicists are close friends for life. Or rivals. People such as Fleischmann and Bockris knew one another for decades. To say that would disqualify Fleischmann from critiquing Bockris, or working with him, or reviewing his papers would be absurd. There were not more than a dozen electrochemists of their caliber in the whole of the 20th century. They all knew one-another. Saying they should not collaborate would be like saying that Bohr could not be trusted to work with Einstein. Apart from this problem, the paper is riddled with errors and absurdities. - Jed
