From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Mon Dec 06 1999 - 00:49:58 MST
Extraordinary claims requires extraordinary evidence. So far this only
looks like sloppy science at best, conspiracy theory at worst. I will
not waste my time by looking into this, unless the adherents can
produce dramatic evidence (where are all these working setups?).
GBurch1@aol.com writes:
> Among Gina's most recent offerings was this link to a Wired article about the
> current state of cold fusion research:
>
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/coldfusion.html
>
> I recommend it. It's a very well written piece of "science anthropological
> journalism" about the history and current state of the cold fusion research
> community. I'm not competent to judge the technical merits of anything
> that's described in the article, but WOULD be curious to see the reactions of
> folks better able to assess the current state of the art described there.
>
> One thing that was a little disturbing about the article was the account of
> how the scientific and R&D community seems set against even a moderately
> funded investigation of what is an undeniably interesting and mysterious
> physical phenomenon. What's described in the Wired article seems well worth
> looking into.
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