thomas malloy wrote:
And if you believe that, you will also believe that Martin
Fleischmann, Stanley Pons, Ed Storms, Mike McKubre and ~2,000
professional scientists are engaged in a massive deception to
convince the world that cold fusion is real by publishing fake data.
Non sequitur
Not at all, but I did not explain what I meant as clearly as Stephen
A. Lawrence did:
"Now if these stories are all a fabric of lies, please try to count up
how many people must be involved in the conspiracy to make this fabric
hold together.
"Two people can keep a secret ... if one of them is dead"
We're talking more like 20,000 people in the conspiracy, though, not
just two."
The 20,000 people is for global warming. For cold fusion you would
have to enlist ~2,000 people in the conspiracy, and you have to swear
them to scientific omerta.
I know a large fraction of those ~2,000 people personally I assure
you they would not keep secret what's for lunch in an hour, never
mind an important secret for 20 years. I personally have been booted
off of more than one discussion group because I keep no secrets. If I
had any inkling that cold fusion data is fake, I would be the first
to blab about it.
The notion that thousands of climate experts are engaged in a massive
fraud is preposterous beyond words. It is conceivable that they are
wrong, but absolutely, positively out of the question that they are
engaged in fraud or that Albert Gore (of all people!) is masterminding them.
- Jed
