I have no doubt that the result will be evewhelmingly against, meaningless, and based on ignorance...
the question is what could an opponent use to support his position? maybe is is a consequence of the "democracy" meme, but it seems that today we trust more majority than evidences... we also ask more theory than evidences. probably because we don't agree on evidences (one key point of thomas kuhn, that during paradigm change position are incomparable)... another point maybe I forgot is that LENR, being experimental, let no real doubt to someone well informed, no room for credible discussions, so the only escape for rejecting it is not reading papers. in some other domains it is easier to discuss endlessly on precises points of detail so you can ignore the key factual evidences. but even key evidences, are ignored, or claimed to be different from the public measure, yet claimed from those public measures... the idea is that the human work naturally in reverse mode, decide what they believe, then find how to find or ignore evidences. anyway some sunny day, it is really funny to see people have tea and chat beside a big elephant in the living room. on rainy days, it is making me desperate. there is an epidemy of elephant in living room. it start to be dangerous. seriously dangerous. 8( 2013/5/19 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> > > Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Just a practical question . (serious, I need a number) >> is there any statistic about the ratio of physicist who think LENR is not >> real? > > > I do not think the question is meaningful. As Ed says, all discoveries start > with only one person believing them (the discoverer). > > The only way to determine this would be with a public opinion poll. The only > poll I know of was taken in Japan many years ago. It showed that roughly half > of scientists and engineers believed there might be something to cold fusion. > I have no idea what the numbers would be now. > > The 2004 DoE review panel was a kind of poll. In answer to Charge 2, 6 Yes, > 10 No, 2 Don't know. However, as you see, the reasons given by the 10 who > said No were ludicrous and would bring a failing grade in any high school > science class. > > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/DOEusdepartme.pdf > > If you ran a poll, you would have to ask qualifying questions to make it > meaningful. Start by asking: > > "Have you read 5 or more papers on cold fusion, including at least 3 written > after 1989?" > > "Are you familiar with the work of Dr. M. McKubre?" > > Anyone who answers "No" to these has no knowledge of the subject, and no > right to any opinion, positive or negative. I would disqualify them. > > Based on the audience at LENR-CANR I would say that most scientists and > engineers who have read several papers agree that the effect is real. I > cannot put an exact number on that. > > - Jed >
