i think what hes expecting is.. a fight. and yep, you got one, jed have fun with it!
On 31/08/2007, Harry Veeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jed, > > What do you expect from a blog named > > "cocktail_party_physics" ? > > Harry > > > > On 30/8/2007 4:04 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > > > Here is the comment the Blogger chopped. She cannot even tolerate > > even this minor level of dissent. No sane, educated person would > > disagree with what I say here EXCEPT in the context of cold fusion, > > which transforms educated people into maniacs. > > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > > > You wrote: > > > > "Seeing as how the point of the post was the media coverage of the > > issue, the focus on media sources was perfectly appropriate." > > > > Well, okay. That's a valuable service. But don't you think it would > > be a good idea to fact-check the media claims? Since you are a > > science writer, it seems to me you should compare the media claims > > with the actual science, and tell your readers which accounts are > > accurate, and which are not. > > > > Whether cold fusion is right or wrong, a reporter should not invent > > nonsensical claims that someone "amassed . . . a statistically > > significant sampling of instances." That never happened. No one would > > do that with calorimetry. > > > > Some reporter dreamed up the notion that cold fusion researchers have > > their own journal. (Perhaps he or she thought that "Infinite Energy" > > magazine is a journal, but it is not, since it never publishes > > original research.) You can fact-check this easily at a university > > library or at LENR-CANR. I do not think it is "evenhanded" or > > "unbiased" for you to treat all newspapers as equally credible when > > some publish blatant errors while others report facts. > > > > Most of these errors are without malice, by the way. Many newspaper > > reporters have difficulty understanding the experiments, and they > > have not read the papers. Some media errors make cold fusion look > > better than it is. > > > > - Jed Rothwell > > Librarian, LENR-CANR.org > > > > -- ∞
