Alain Sepeda <[email protected]> wrote: What have been the IG Nobel around Cold fusion in history ? > > I've noticed the Fleischmann&Pons 91, which have disapeared from records ? > > then the Bockris 97 > Louis Kervan 93 for calcium related LENR >
That is interesting. Is this the official list? http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/ You are saying that Fleischmann and Pons were listed for 1991? I did not recall that. They are not on the list now. Ridicule has no place in science. When it comes up, I think of the 1860 debate about evolution between Archbishop Wilberforce and T. H. Huxley. Wilburforce ridiculed evolution and asked Huxley whether he was descended from an ape on his grandmother's side or his grandfather's. Huxley supposedly responded: "If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed of great means of influence & yet who employs these faculties & that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion, I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape." I say "supposedly" because S. J. Gould has some doubts about what happened and what exactly was said. It seems Huxley embellished his retort when describing it later. - Jed
