Jones, Sorry it was the american physicist Wood who did the debunking but if I remember correctly according to Malcolm Ashmore he went to france at the request of englishmen.
Some browsers don't seem to handle pdf links well. The link works in google chrome if you copy and paste the link into the browser address bar. If that doesn't work I uploaded a copy of _Theatre of the Blind_ by Malcolm Ashmore to google docs: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BxxczzEYA5C5c3gxZmZpRlRRTTg It is eye opening read. You learn the story behind the "facts" on which articles like the one you cite are based. Anyone who is concerned with integrity and honesty in science should read it. here is a review of the paper: http://www.albany.edu/~scifraud/data/sci_fraud_3038.html <<Blondlot's story has been so frequently told to students and so often repeated as if it concerned self-delusion that the self-delusion myth has a life of its own; it is a consistently told story but, of course, that does not mean it is true. It may function as a tale with heuristic functions but that still does not make it true. And what Malcolm Ashmore does rather thoroughly here is to demonstrate that despite the frequency of the telling, despite its functionality, the disgrace of Blondlot was not the dramatic tale so wonderfully honed in texts. It is, rather, an exposition of the gutsiness of the supposed gentlemen of science. No doubt about that: the squeamish need not apply. Physics is a game for the stout-hearted and the clever. Behind the scenes activities in physics are pretty much like the behind the scenes activities elsewhere: warfare, board rooms, stock exchanges, those sorts of manly activities. >> Harry On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > Harry, I get only a black page when I click on the URL ? > > ... but my first thought is- letting an Englishman be the chief debunker of > a Frenchman is a bit unfair, no? > > And ... Speaking of "Theater of the Blind", and also of "Ce qui circule > vient autour" > the following explains how "believing becomes seeing" > > https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:6g_JrUgUhoYJ:www.u.arizona.edu/~m > ishler/klotz.pdf+%22N-ray%22+believing+is+seeing&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=AD > GEEShtzIpw98i14pj5t4o4xNNrsAPcHMHfrpf-wzMzNdW9Vo_VCT8R5CliaES4DAJJu6sZwhwWWv > jRrFO1m7fiMvBM6ZTMh16zKVg9FbVsvaNtwjcEmK6tvUQERLOZNtgPXk2Gbycl&sig=AHIEtbSlr > moDACHnA6kKy0H2tFwWOAvJXw > >
