I hope you are wrong in this case Jed. To intentionally delay the introduction of LENR products and the wonders that they will release is criminal! Many lives hang in the balance. We may harbor ill will towards Garwin and Lewis, but I find it difficult to believe that they are of that low caliber. It did anger me to view that early meeting where Lewis attempted to ridicule P&F by making unsupported claims about their techniques and data. His behavior was more like I would expect from a bully instead of an experienced scientist.
Surely you do not believe that he was attacking them just to ensure his job security. I gathered that the attack was due to his belief that the pair was incompetent and their procedures were amateurish. It would have served everyone better had Lewis taken time to discuss his questions in private with the guys instead of that public forum. This is especially true since Lewis apparently did not realize the quality of the work P&F performed. If the hot fusion scientists actually made an effort to derail the cold fusion work while knowing it was valid they should all be immediately fired and disgraced. I don't know about the rest of you guys, but to me your integrity is important and I would rather find a new job due to mine being eliminated by a new discovery than to deny that discovery. I will loose all respect for these guys if what you say is true. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Jan 3, 2014 7:40 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:McKubre visitors who peer-reviewed his lab, then get (unethically) silent David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: Although your take on the subject might be the correct one, I find it difficult to imagine that anyone with integrity would act in that manner. The world is full of people without integrity. In academia, high & mighty professors engage in all kinds of unethical behavior, such as plagiarism. They reject papers from young researchers during peer-review, and then steal the ideas. That's how they got high & mighty. Scientists have the notion that they are especially honest and they must be truthful because the scientific method always works in the end, and falsehoods or errors will be found out. I have seen no evidence for this. Scientists get away with lying more often people in many other professions do. Programmers, farmers and even bankers are more honest, in my experience. I think Garwin is being disingenuous. I would also point to the Upton Sinclair quote Axil noted: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - Jed
