Nice and simple paper, very informative. The general delusion is so hard to accept when you get the data.
If you read French I can proudly say you that you should not read "La Recherche" (a more academic local competitor to SciAm) on "Scientific controversies" ( http://www.larecherche.fr/savoirs/dossier/500-ans-controverses-scientifiques ). They have written an article on Cold fusion, and shortly repeat the wikipedia fairy tale... If they were literate they could at least moan that there is a gang of crazy scientist and crook entrepreneur who work on the subject, that even national instruments bosses get infected, that University of Missouri is infected, that Toyota, Mitsubishi, US navy, NASA, Elforsk, ENEA waste public money on that chimera... but no... they are not even aware of what is happening, which should have pushed them, *either to shut up like serious journalist who don't talk of Cold fusion not to be fired, nor look stupid in few quarters. * or to moan on crazy pseudo-science fan * or to support LENR as a new frontier of science... citing Galileo and Cold fusion official history in the same paper is a shame. At least they should have stayed silent on LENR. Coward but not stupid. It remind me the last days of wealth and freedom Enron boss, who was so convinced he was right that he did not even try to sell his shares, while he was stealing money to save his company. http://www.princeton.edu/~rbenabou/papers/Groupthink%20IOM%202012_07_02%20BW.pdf#page=69 What shock me more than dogmatism in opposition to LENR, is general illiteracy. by the way I feel they tell even more stupidities on other subject I follows, once again repeating wikipedia position, not the scientific one. As taleb says, History being written by the losers. 2013/8/16 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> > Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> History does repeat itself, over and over. >> > > Mark Twain supposedly said: "History does not repeat itself, but it does > rhyme." I agree. Things are never quite the same. > > The quote from Watson is hysterical. His book, *The Double Helix*, is > hysterical. My edition from Norton has the journal reviews in the back, > published when the book first came out. The reviews were by scientists who > were outraged -- outraged! -- because Watson told the truth about how > science is done. As I said, he also described himself as a lazy young man > more into goofing off and chasing women than working. > > - Jed > >
