Jed, Perhaps detractors help to maintain interest in the subject, but they are dying off too.
harry On 21/4/2008 3:47 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> How can that be? SPWAR has detected high energy reactions from a >> cold fusion system. >> >> This is no small thing. Then the field dies. > > I do not think the SPWAR results have been replicated to everyone's > satisfaction yet. Certainly the Russians have doubts, and they are > experts in CR-39. The issue is somewhat over my head. > > Anyway, the field is dying because the researchers themselves are > dying, and not being replaced by younger researchers. If you ask a > skeptic why, he will say this is one of Langmuir's criteria for > pathological science: "The ratio of supporters to critics rises to > somewhere near 50% and then falls gradually into oblivion." If you > ask me, I say: The field has been crushed by rabid academic politics, > and the suppression of academic freedom. > > >> I don't understand. > > Come now. It isn't hard to understand. > > - Jed >
