James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: Unfortunately, Jed, the accusers of "conspiracy theorizing" may have a > legal leg to stand on given this "plain language" instruction to the > jurors in California civil cases regarding > conspiracy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(civil)#California_.22Plain_Language.22_jury_instructions_on_conspiracy:_essential_factual_elements> > :
Ha! Well, I do not care whether there is a conspiracy or not. I do not see what difference it would make. Several members of the secretive Jason committee are strongly opposed to cold fusion. I have heard they often pull strings to prevent funding. I guess that would constitute a conspiracy of sorts. Maybe they are coordinating and conspiring. More likely they just happen to be members of an elite, influential, conservative group of old farts who get together periodically to give Uncle Sam bad advice. Several of them have it in for cold fusion. So what? Lots of people have it in for cold fusion. I think that I know why Jouni Valkonen accused me of being a conspiracy theorist. He did that to make me look silly or gullible. People often accuse me of being a "conspiracy theorist" because in the minds of most people, a conspiracy theorist is a paranoid person who wears a tinfoil cap and believes silly things. They also accuse me of being a "true believer," and they say that I believe people are "hiding" the data. A few people have the odd notion that I personally wrote hundreds of papers and uploaded them to the Internet. Here is a typical recent exchange along these lines in a blog: Skeptic: "Most people don’t have the time to commit dozens if not hundreds of hours reading the quote-unquote literature produced by everyone on the web . . ." Me: "These papers were published in the J. Electroanal. Chem., J. Fusion Energy, Jap. J. of Applied Physics, and by institutions such as BARC, the ENEA, the NSF, China Lake and EPRI. They were not published on the web, although I later put some of them there." Skeptic: ". . . who claims some amazing truth that ‘they’ don’t want you to know about. . . ." Me: "I do not know who 'they' would be. EPRI, the NRL and China Lake have no objection to your reading peer-reviewed research they paid for. They are not hiding anything. Go to any university or national library and you will find these papers." Skeptic: ". . . The smart money is on you turning out to be just another crank/conspiracy theorist. . . ." Me: "I do not embrace any conspiracy theories. You brought that up; not me. I know more than a thousand cold fusion researchers. Every one of them is from a mainstream organization. Not one of them is engaged in a conspiracy, or believes that anyone is conspiring against them. Frankly, that notion is ridiculous." - Jed
