Alain & Jed--
I agree with Jed. Fear of the unknown is hard wired in the human/animal response in general. Only rational thought process or repeated safe experiences can overcome this built-in fear. Its the risk takers like Rossi who look fear in the face and ignore her/him that cause change in themselves as well as the rest of timid society. And in many cases the risk takers are very principled people--unscarred by dogma. They become the heroes in the long run. Bob Sent from Windows Mail From: Jed Rothwell Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2014 4:30 PM To: [email protected] Alain Sepeda <[email protected]> wrote: just a nasty question ... who opposed Cold Fusion research ? DoD,Navy ? Commercial/Military Nuke labs ? or rather : APS, AAAA, DoE, NYT, Swedish Public Radio, INFN, CERN, scientific journals... All of them opposed it, and they still do. See, for example: http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/293wikipedia.html http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MalloveEclassicnas.pdf I ascribe this opposition to human nature, not a conspiracy. People opposed most innovation, great and small. They fought to prevent the development of the laser, and before that they fought against buttons (threatening to burn people at the stake), and zippers (because they thought zippers promote sexual immorality). - Jed
