Alain Sepeda <[email protected]> wrote: I did not see it, but from reaction > One point that have been reported is that the put the blame of that > scientific and human tragedy on F&P bad communication... not on anything > about the community, paradigm change, conservatisme, hijack of brain by few > extremists, billions hunting... >
I think the 1989 fiasco had many causes, including paradigm change and the others you listed, but bad communication also played a role. Ed Storms has said this, and I think he has a point. It was more difficult to communicate scientific information in 1989. Scientific journals are slow to be published and page limitations make them inadequate to the task. The Internet as we know it hardly existed. Fax machines were used instead. The Internet is far superior to them. I think LENR-CANR and other websites demonstrate this. The NSF held an important conference in October 1989. The proceedings are here. They include transcripts of discussions: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/EPRInsfepriwor.pdf These proceedings were kept confidential for many years. I think Ed said that is because the participants did not want to be hassled. I get that, but I wish this had been made public because it put to rest many important questions that dogged the field in the early years. I consider this a failure of communication. when academic community fall in consensual delusion, manipulated by few > extremists, they put the blame on the victim like any sociopath. > I do not think the people who made this video are members of the academic community. They strike me as nitwits who know nothing about experimental science. - Jed
