Hi, I'm continuing to read Excess heat and I fall on the story of the first caltech conference. Chapter6 (4 press conference)
Beaudette present it as a big manipulation of press, with Lewis behaving in a very unscientific way, pretending his failure was an evidence, claiming lack of stirring, without the least doubt expressed... finally joking nastily on F&P... F&P argued on the stirring with evidence (colorant mixing shown) but it was too late, and Lewis even caused a nearly lynching in a conference with F&P... It seems that since then, media, journals and officials followed that vision. LENR was forbidden in USA, but surviving abroad... (until US influence won in most place)... of course all was supported by a deep desire not to admit cold fusion, lose dominance, and endanger funding, but the key event was that few press conference were Lewis say he was sure, sure, and sure it was nothing. Beaudette explain that Lewis and his colleague were not important scientist, except by that claim... I imagine you know that position. Is is a vision that you share here? as you know, based on Taleb vision, history should be soon rewritten to hide that academic tragedy. One way could be to blame a scapegoat, and Lewis could be a good candidate ... who is he today ? would he be the useful idiot needed to save the community ?
