[Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Alain Sepeda
Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion By Jennifer Ouellette | October 29, 2012 | http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2012/10/29/genie-in-a-bottle-the-case-against-cold-fusion/

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2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Sigh . . . As they said of the French Bourbon dynasty, these people learn nothing, and they forget nothing. This column could have been written anytime in the last 23 years. There is not a single scientific fact in it. There is not one reference to scientific literature. It is based on movies and

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
I updated the LENR-CANR news item about cold fusion in the mass media. I added: Ouellette, J., *Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion*http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2012/10/29/genie-in-a-bottle-the-case-against-cold-fusion/, in *Scientific American*. 2012.

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Terry Blanton
Would you expect more from a recovering English major?

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
I posted three messages in response to this article; one from Ed Storms and two of my own. All three disappeared within about 20 minutes. I assume they were erased. I just re-posted two of them. We will see if they vanish again. Here are two of them: Here is a response to this article written

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Rob Dingemans
Hi, Seen the contents (or better said the lack of it) of this article and the current comments shown, thy can not otherwise than to consider the Scientific American as a strictly biased magazine, which lacks a decent chief editor who should have performed a thorough review and hence this

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
When I open a browser incognito, I find no trace of my comments, which were #11, 12 and 13. They are only visible to me when I am signed in as Jed Rothwell. Apparently they are embargoed. That is to say, waiting for approval. Ah ha. A comment posted at 2:33 just appeared. It is critical of her

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Okay, my comments are definitely gone, and the comment posted at 2:33 is gone. That one quoted Robert Duncan. She is erasing everything after her own comment at 1:16. At least, every criticism. Maybe someone should post fawning praise to see if she keeps it. If they want to close the discussion

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2012-10-30 Thread Daniel Rocha
Just for the record, would you post them here? 2012/10/30 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Okay, my comments are definitely gone, and the comment posted at 2:33 is gone. That one quoted Robert Duncan. -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: Just for the record, would you post them here? I did: http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg72503.html I posted one other short message that I did not record. The message posted at 2:33 was from someone else. I did not get a chance to

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
My last message is now gone. You should not bother to write to this nitwit. I doubt there is any point to writing to the editors, either. Imagine casually erasing messages from Storms, without explanation or apology! - Jed

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Alan Fletcher
She put up an addendum from Krivit (and alluded to posting difficulties) -- who is peddling discredited CF vs Real LENR --- I wonder how a particular experiment knows how to behave depending on the belief of the experimenter. (See the Pod and The Barrier) At least I found out that Duncan is

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Daniel Rocha
With friends like that, who needs enemies? 2012/10/30 Alan Fletcher a...@well.com She put up an addendum from Krivit (and alluded to posting difficulties) -- who is peddling discredited CF vs Real LENR --- -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com

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2012-10-30 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Alan, She put up an addendum from Krivit (and alluded to posting difficulties) -- who is peddling discredited CF vs Real LENR --- I wonder how a particular experiment knows how to behave depending on the belief of the experimenter. (See the Pod and The Barrier) Sounds similar to the