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Your comment about cold fusion makes no sense

Comment comment by Anonymous on 05 October 2007

You wrote:

"As I mentioned, I understand the necessity of detaching yourself from your results. The experiment must be able to stand on its own merit, and should not have to be propped up by the personalities of the experimenters. (Cold fusion comes to mind.)"

What do you mean by this? Cold fusion researchers are objective; their experiments stand on their own merits, and I have never heard anyone discuss their personalities. Roughly 2,000 professional scientists have replicated cold fusion and published replications in mainstream, peer-reviewed journals. They include many distinguished people, such as members of the Atomic Energy Commissions of India and France, but they are all, as Fleischmann puts it, "painfully conventional scientists."

Perhaps you are under the impression that cold fusion was a mistake or that it was not replicated. If so, you are completely wrong, and I suggest you review the literature before commenting. You will find 600 full-text papers and bibliography of ~3,000 papers on this research, including ~500 peer-reviewed, positive papers, here:

LENR-CANR.org

- Jed Rothwell

Librarian, LENR-CANR.org

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RE: Your comment about cold fusion makes no sense by scottb :: NR7

Sorry, but his comment made perfect sense.

The mainstream physics community doesn't accept the conjectures surrounding the Fleischmann-Pons experiment. You, as a representative of a minority dissent group, think otherwise. But the statement that his comment "makes no sense" is a lie - you present your claims as if they're accepted by the community, when they're not.

For those of us who aren't physicists, the responsible interpretation of this situation is that the mainstream community is right and you're wrong. In that context, wyldeling's statement is entirely sensible.

Now, it happens that he is a physicist, and presumably capable of evaluating the data for himself. Personally, I'd be happy to hear what he has to say about the stuff on your site, if he feels it's worth his time to review. To me, it looks like a pretty much archetypal pseudo-science site. Lots of strident claims with ambiguous data.

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