Re: [Vo]:Typical dismissive attitudes toward cold fusion

At 03:45 PM 3/2/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: I have heard about a guy living under high tension power lines who made a gadget to extract useful amounts of energy. Supposedly the power company sued him. It's outrageous if they actually did! Imagine bombarding his family with RF and then suing him

Re: [Vo]:Typical dismissive attitudes toward cold fusion

At 03:16 PM 3/2/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: I imagine they do not think it is worth the trouble to comment on, or to check out. That is how I feel about claims of "harvesting energy from the surroundings" such as the one just reported here, by Aviso: http://pesn.com/2011/02/27/9501773_Aviso_Pond

Re: [Vo]:Typical dismissive attitudes toward cold fusion

Dear Ron. True but only one side of the coin. I met here Mike Shermer, read and reviewed his book *Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

Re: [Vo]:Typical dismissive attitudes toward cold fusion

In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:45:21 -0500: Hi, [snip] >Along the same lines, the letters to the editor in a recent edition of >the Sci. Am. included several critiques of the assertion that cell >phones cause no harm because the radiation is not strong enough to break

Re: [Vo]:Typical dismissive attitudes toward cold fusion

Greetings Vortex-L >From "my" observations, Skeptics: Never want to expand their knowledge database Never invented anything Never wanted to invent anything"novel". and Are very jealous of the success of people who have the intellectual virtuosity to create the novel. Respectfully, Ron Kita

Re: [Vo]:Typical dismissive attitudes toward cold fusion

I wrote: I cannot read his mind, but I suspect that he and the others hold this beneath contempt. I imagine they do not think it is worth the trouble to comment on, or to check out. That is how I feel about claims of "harvesting energy from the surroundings" such as the one just reported here

Re: [Vo]:Typical dismissive attitudes toward cold fusion

Democracy is not mediocracy. But it is Memecracy (I have created the word) - ideas, elements of culture dominate us all. Bob Park has asked information and I have sent him the best. He has not commented and I think now, as the Germans say itt is\ Scheissegal what the skeptics think. The adress of

Re: [Vo]:Typical dismissive attitudes toward cold fusion

Peter Gluck wrote: They think democracy includes the right to have an opinion about everything even if you don't have the most elementary facts. Surely democracy does include that right! Not much from the learned skeptics.What could they say? Bob Park is silent; I have sent him up-to-dated

Re: [Vo]:Typical dismissive attitudes toward cold fusion

These people seem to be factless stupid amateurs. They think democracy includes the right to have an opinion about everything even if you don't have the most elementary facts. Not much from the learned skeptics.What could they say? Bob Park is silent; I have sent him up-to-dated information re the

[Vo]:Typical dismissive attitudes toward cold fusion

Some comments in this news article reflect the attitude of most members of the public toward cold fusion: http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/6743923/the-domestic-politics-of-oil.thtml One person brought up the Rossi results. The others all rejected the claims, with comments such as: "Daniel