No one paid any attention to Ramsey's contribution to the DoE CF committee's report despite him being co-chair, the only Nobel laureate and willing to resign from the committee if they didn't include it.
Bottom line, no one with any authority that, in that capacity, refused to pursue the "flawed" work of F&P should have remained in those positions of authority. On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> They themselves made things more difficult in a number of ways, including >> not disavowing the neutron and gamma measurements as soon as it became >> clear that they were in over their heads. >> > > Fleischmann disavowed it immediately. Pons clung to it for a few months > into the summer of 1989, as I recall from a letter at the U. Utah library. > There was some friction between them over this issue. > > Someone later said to Pons, "you were only half right." He said, "in this > business being half right is a win." It is like batting 500. Other > experimentalists should have known that. They should have cut him more > slack. > > - Jed > >
