Very nice table talk. You included these good-natured observations: "If you want great science, you must settle for lots of schlock science, and also many *odd people*." And, "by his own account, Watson was always ready to cut corners and goof off. He described a conference in Italy in 1951, a year before he discovered DNA. This is a picture of emergent science and the many *odd people* it attracts," where you go on to quote Watson's description of the jumble of unrestrained theorizing that was going on at the time.
History does repeat itself, over and over. The real mystery is that people forget this from time to time and come to imagine that the book has been closed on the important discoveries in science. All of the people here can take pride in being among the odd people. Eric On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is the script for my ICCF18 Luncheon Talk. This was well received. It > has cute illustrations. > > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJlessonsfro.pdf > > I have to write an oh-so-serious version for the Proceedings, in > academese. This one is more fun. > > I am also trying to squeeze Mizuno's paper down to the 6-page limit of the > Proceedings. That is difficult. > > - Jed > >
