It would seem that in the real science community, opposition is a bit of a paper tiger.
Didn't Jones go out of his way to fight recent funding for experiments at MIT? On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > I do not know of any prominent, published skeptics who have observed > positive experiments. > > Steve Jones did experiments, as you noted, but they did not work. > Kamikande was a good example. Richard Garwin often attacks cold fusion in > public, but when he visited SRI and saw a positive experiment, he agreed it > was working in a report he wrote. Nate Hoffman measured helium and agreed > it was real. He wrote a book in which he did not mention excess heat > results and he claimed that the tritium comes from used CANDU reactor > moderator water. He was egged on by people at EPRI who oppose cold fusion. > > The other prominent skeptics have never seen an experiment as far as I > know. Most of them have not read any papers and they know nothing about the > research. You can see that from their comments, and in the Wikipedia > article. > > A few of them did read papers. Huizenga and Morrison read papers and > attended conferences. Britz has read more papers than anyone other than > Storms. There may be a few others, but I don't recall any names. > > There are not many people actively opposed to cold fusion. There is > inchoate opposition in the general population and among scientists. > > - Jed > >
