Mike Carrell wrote:
You need several in a bulletproof demo -- or one tested in a skeptic's lab.
NO! No, no, no! Big mistake.
You need some pretty good demos that are tested in a friendly supporter's lab.
Ignore the skeptics and their labs. After the last battle has been
fought, victories declared, in every newspaper on earth proclaims
that the effect is real, then and only then will the skeptics begin
to look at it. (Not only will they look; they will take credit for
it. They will say they knew all along it was real and without their
help you couldn't have done it.)
Now, at this stage, you want experiments for knowledgeable people who
are sympathetic to the claims and willing to suspend disbelief.
For too long, people in cold fusion and at BLP have been searching
for an experiment that will "convince the skeptics," or they have
been trying to write a "bulletproof" paper that will be "published
in Nature." These are the last steps you take, not the first steps.
To put it another way, these steps are analogous to the World War I
military strategy of attacking the enemy at his strongest point after
giving him a week's notice that you are coming, and after ordering
your soldiers not to wear helmets. It is self-defeating. The 2004 DoE
review of cold fusion was a good example.
- Jed
