Am I daft? Why is he cc Jones? Because he challenged Steve? SJ is deep end challenged, IMO.
T On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wrote: > >> If someone like Britz or Prof. Dylla of the AIP were to come out and >> declare unequivocally and publicly they think cold fusion is real, they >> would land in a world of trouble. They know that! > > To be fair to Britz, he has also at times defended the reputations of > researchers, if not their results. He has distanced himself from the extreme > tactics of his fellow skeptics. The attached letter from Miles to Britz > describes one such incident. > > I do not recall that he has engaged in ad hominem attacks, except when he > attacked me and a few Japanese researchers. I am not likely to forget that! > Since he is a political animal, I suspect this is more a case of prudence or > cowardliness than ethics. He and the other skeptics are usually happy to > kick anyone in the teeth so long as that person is unable to kick back. > > By the way, the postscript in this letter is addressed to me. > > - Jed > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY > NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER > WEAPONS DIVISION > CHINA LAKE, CALIFORNIA 93555-6001 > > IN REPLY REFER TO > > December 18, 1996 > > Dr. Dieter Britz > Kemisk Institut > Aarhus Universtet > Langelandsgade 140 > 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark > > Dear Dr. Britz: > > Thank you for your letter of 12 December 1996 and your support of scientific > fairness with respect to my response to the Jones and Hansen paper > criticizing my cold fusion publications. I understand your position as a > skeptic on this issue and have no problem with that fact. Nevertheless, my > experimental measurements convince me that anomalous effects occur in > deuterated palladium. I will mail you a copy of my final report and recent > papers that I submitted to ICCF-6 so that you can judge this experimental > evidence yourself. I will also send you copies of letters that I have on > file regarding my request to publish a rebuttal back-to-back in the same > issue of J. Phys. Chem. as is their stated custom. Steve Jones, however, did > not want to delay his publication. Neither Steve Jones nor Dr. El-Sayed can > produce any formal letter that shows that I was officially informed of the > publication criticizing my work. I challenged Steve Jones to publish his > e-mail allegations regarding my work because I expected to be informed and > to be allowed to write a rebuttal. This never happened. > > I can document the following sequences of events: Dr. Kendall Johnson, a > post-doe, visited BYU on 3 January 1995 and was given an early version of > the paper in question. Dr. Johnson was not involved with any publications > involved in this debate and was not an appropriate person to be given this > paper. He later showed this paper to me, but he did not know what stage this > paper was in or to which journal it would be submitted. Furthermore, I had > to leave on travel for meetings and other assignments in Washington, D.C., > and I did not return until the end of January. I was expecting to receive > the final manuscript and to be informed of the journal involved before > writing my response. I never heard another word about this manuscript until > Dr. Morrison was handing out copies of page-proofs of this paper at the > ICCF-5 conference in Monte Carlo, Monaco. The rest of the story is found in > my letters requesting a delay in publication to permit my back-to-back > response in the same journal. This was denied. I later submitted a detailed > response to J. Phys. Chem., but this response was rejected by the editor and > reviewers that were selected. Based on the reviewer's comments, none of the > reviewers that I proposed were selected. Unfortunately, it is difficult to > find unbiased reviewers for either side of this controversy. > > I remain convinced of my experimental results and that I can easily respond > to nearly all criticisms of my work. > > Sincerely, > > Dr. Melvin H. Miles > NAWCWPNS Fellow > > P. S. Please post this letter on e-mail if you feel that it would be > informative to others regarding this matter. > > copies: > > Dr. El-Sayed, Editor, J. Phys. Chem. > Professor Steve Jones. BYU > >
