Dear Ron.

True but only one side of the coin. I met here Mike Shermer, read and
reviewed his book *Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience,
Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our
Time<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_People_Believe_Weird_Things:_Pseudoscience,_Superstition,_and_Other_Confusions_of_Our_Time>
.* (1997, 2nd Revision edition 2002) in my former newsletter. Regulalrly
reading his Skeptic Msgazine. It is possible they make errors but people
really and deeply believe in very strange things. including dangerous and
evil ones.

Thank you for inspiring me this - I have to discuss with Shermer re E-cat.
Peter




On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Ron Kita <chiralex.k...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings Vortex-L
>
> From "my" observations,  Skeptics:
>
> Never want to expand their knowledge database
> Never invented anything
> Never wanted to invent anything...."novel".
> and
> Are very jealous of the success of people who have the intellectual
> virtuosity to create the novel.
>
> Respectfully,
> Ron Kita
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I wrote:
>>
>>  I cannot read his mind, but I suspect that he and the others hold this
>>> beneath contempt. I imagine they do not think it is worth the trouble to
>>> comment on, or to check out. That is how I feel about claims of "harvesting
>>> energy from the surroundings" such as the one just reported here, by Aviso .
>>> . .
>>>
>>
>> Unless this means harvesting energy from solar energy, or from RF fields
>> under high voltage power lines and the like.
>>
>> I have heard about a guy living under high tension power lines who made a
>> gadget to extract useful amounts of energy. Supposedly the power company
>> sued him. It's outrageous if they actually did! Imagine bombarding his
>> family with RF and then suing him for using it.
>>
>> The authorities still maintain there is no harm from power lines. I don't
>> believe 'em. This is one time I side with conspiracy theorists, per Upton
>> Sinclair's dictum: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something
>> when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
>>
>> Along the same lines, the letters to the editor in a recent edition of the
>> Sci. Am. included several critiques of the assertion that cell phones cause
>> no harm because the radiation is not strong enough to break chemical bonds.
>> Some people wrote to say the same thing we said here: the heat alone may be
>> a problem. The author responded by evading the issue and restating the
>> obvious.
>>
>> - Jed
>>
>>
>


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Dr. Peter Gluck
Cluj, Romania
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com

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