Mark Gibbs wrote: "Allow me to digress for a moment to ask all of you who sent me messages in tones ranging from polite through to downright rudeasserting that cold fusion has actually been successfully duplicated: If an experiment that demonstrates cold fusion has really been replicated in the real world by real scientists then why would the scientific community ignore something so profound? Everyone agrees that cold fusion would be a game changer and in itself would be a hugely important scientific discovery so why would anyone in the scientific community ignore an important, successful, and replicable experiment?"
Allow me to quote the Scientific American, January 1906, saying almost the same thing in close to the same words, regarding heavier than air flying machines in Dayton, Ohio: "If such sensational and tremendously important experiments are being conducted in a not very remote part of the country, on a subject in which everyone feels the most profound interest, is it possible to believe that the enterprising American reporter, who, it is well known, comes down the chimney when the door is locked in his face -- even when he has to scale a fifteen-story skyscraper to do so -- would not have ascertained all about them and published them broadcast long ago?" - Jed
