Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: The exchanges with Petrasso and the others I'm thinking of were letters to > the editor in Nature about the funky gamma spectrum. >
Oh. Well, Petrasso was right about that issue. Martin and everyone else I can think of agreed he was right the gamma spectrum. That was a mistake. I think Beaudette was saying that the heart of the claim is excess heat, measured with calorimetry, and only a few of the critics have addressed the calorimetry. I think they all failed to find a fault in it. Lewis found an imaginary fault in his own work. That's what the British call an "own goal." As Martin said, it is the easiest thing in the world to persuade yourself you have made a mistake, and toss out an anomalous result. - Jed
