Hi all,
In Excess Heat (chapter 10 p171=141), Beaudette talk of 4 scientists (1 alosn,e and a team of 3) who visited McKubre, inspected all, and seen no problem, then stay silent... who was they, is there any report ? "Sometimes peer review takes the form of visits to a working laboratory. Mike McKubre’s laboratory did successful anomalous power experiments from 1989 to 1997 and continuing. He was visited twice by scientists who were eminently qualified in the appropriate technology but who were completely out of the public eye. The first visitor was an electrochemist fully qualified in calorimetry. A day was spent studying the experimental and measurement processes, and looking at the equipment operation in the laboratory. This previously outspoken critic found nothing wrong with the experimental work. If the results showed excess energy, the visitor could see no basis on which that result might be wrong. He so informed McKubre of his conclusion. The second visit was by a team of three scientists. One was a well-experienced nuclear experimental physicist. The other two were senior electrochemists, one of whom had written several textbooks in the field. They enjoyed the same visiting routine as the first visitor. They arrived at the same endpoint as the first visitor, that there was nothing wrong with the calorimetry. They so informed McKubre. Then they were silent, completely silent. Were their individual reputations so important to them that they could not be put at risk by reporting publicly what they had found? What they had found was that McKubre’s experiments did reveal the existence of anomalous power as far as these experts were able to tell. Their silence was unethical in view of the importance of the matter at hand and the special expertise the four could bring to bear on the subject."
