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The Real Criminals: The APS <http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5818081&cid=48126433> (Score:-1 <http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5818081&cid=48126433#>) by Baldrson <http://slashdot.org/~Baldrson> (78598) <http://slashdot.org/~Baldrson> * <http://slashdot.org/faq/subscriptions.shtml#subscription_other_advantages> on Sunday October 12, 2014 @04:49PM (#48126433 <http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5818081&cid=48126433>) Homepage <http://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2014/05/introduction-extinction-of-human-race.html> Journal <http://slashdot.org/~Baldrson/journal/> The controversy over Rossi is a tempest in a teapot. If you want to know when the real crime was committed, it was by the American Physical Society at this moment in its Baltimore, MD meeting of May 1, 1989 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR-AohRWbBo#t=138> [youtube.com]. Agreed, it was more like a riot with looting than any kind of criminal conspiracy to commit fraud, but it was vastly more damaging. As you watch Steven E. Koonin in that video and listen to the obscene applause of is "colleagues" with the APS, keep in mind that the original announcement had been at the end of March -- a mere 5 weeks earlier -- and that the experimental protocol hadn't even been published yet. When it was published it stated that it took 2 months of electrolytic loading before the effect *might* occur. The sole act of scientific integrity among the establishment figures was as follows: "Ordinarily, new scientific discoveries are claimed to be consistent and reproducible; as a result, if the experiments are not complicated, the discovery can usually be confirmed or disproved in a few months. The claims of cold fusion, however, are unusual in that even the strongest proponents of cold fusion assert that the experiments, for unknown reasons, are not consistent and reproducible at the present time. However, even a single short but valid cold fusion period would be revolutionary." --Norman Ramsey Dr. Norman Ramsey Jr. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Foster_Ramsey,_Jr> [wikipedia.org], Nobel laureate and professor of physics at Harvard University was the only person on the the 1989 Department of Energy cold fusion review panel to voice a dissenting opinion. Ramsey insisted on the inclusion of this preamble as an alternative to his resignation from the panel. The committee acquiesed because he was its co-chair and the only Nobel laureate on the committee. Dr. Ramsey's condition has been fulfilled hundreds of times over the last quarter century and there has been absolutely no acknowledgement by the APS of its crime. -- Seastead this. <http://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2014/05/introduction-extinction-of-human-race.html> [blogspot.com] Reply to This <http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5818081&op=Reply&threshold=3&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=48126433> Share <http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5818081&cid=48126433#> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:30 AM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > I went with Oriani's paper with the nauseating context of Nature's > rejection on the basis that it violates theory, and then followed up with > Storms's "Status of Cold Fusion (2010) > <http://coldfusionnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/StormsEstatusofcoa.pdf> > " > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:57 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Re:The Real Criminals: The APS >> <http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5818081&cid=48127123> (Score:0 >> <http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5818081&cid=48126433#>) >> by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 12, 2014 @07:21PM (#48127123 >> <http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5818081&cid=48127123>) >> >> Its really too bad that APS et al are doubling down on their crime even >> after decades of experiments that meet Ramsey's criterion. >> >> Citation needed. >> Reply to This >> <http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5818081&op=Reply&threshold=3&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=48127123> >> Parent >> <http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5818081&threshold=3&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=48127007> >> Share <http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5818081&cid=48126433#> >> > >
