On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Joshua Cude <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>wrote: > >> James Bowery wrote: >> >>> With one hand MIT was trashing Fleischmann and Pons and with the other >>> hand they were simultaneously bolting out of the gate running a >>> scatter-shot patent mill for Hagelstein. >>> >> Well, seriously, MIT is a large organization with many different people >> who have different points of view. A university is nothing like a >> corporation or the White House, with one person in charge and one set of >> policies. >> > But the claim is that those beneficiaries of government largess at the MIT > have been able to squelch cold fusion research on the entire planet. They > are the reason it hasn't borne fruit. Now you're saying they can't control > their own institution. That kind of takes the wind of the cold fusion's > favorite excuse. > What is being protected is the establishment. If an establishment institution overcomes the horrible crime against humanity committed by P&F when they conducted science by press conference, and despite the horrible incompetence of P&F in measuring neutrons, etc., blah-de woof woof -- then the damage is largely contained. No conspiracy is required. Just a self-organizing system of incentives spiced with incompetence.
