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Posted on 06/07/2009 7:50:26 PM PDT by Kevmo
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The title is supposed to be: The Suppression of Inconvenient Facts in Physics
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Pinging my favorite technofreepers; I thought you might like this article.
Ya know I was thinking about Ronald Hatch’s Modified Lorentz Aether Theory just the other day while I was eating my fritos.
It seems that the Cold Fusion storms of controversy are simply part of a time-honored tradition of scientists shouting down dissidents.
The Cold Fusion Scandal
Such misrepresentation and falsification of evidence happened after Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman (5) announced in March 1989 that they had achieved fusion by electrochemical means. Several influential US laboratories (Caltech(6), MIT (7), Yale/Brookhaven (8)) reported negative results on Cold Fusion that were based on shoddy experimental work and a misunderstanding of the Pons-Fleischmann claims (9). They gave a hostile hot fusion establishment the excuse it needed to conclude that the claims made by Pons and Fleischmann were bogus. In November 1989, a DOE panel concluded the same after a shallow investigation of only seven month (10).
The late Eugene F. Mallove, who was the Chief Science Writer at the MIT News Office at the time and later founded Infinite Energy, a journal dedicated to covering potential new energy sources ignored by mainstream science, played a part in exposing the MIT report as mistaken, possibly fraudulent (11), and resigned in protest over it in 1991.
We see the attempted suppression of physics (by supposed engineers) on tech threads all the time here at Free Republic.
The speed at which a vehicle attains maximum fuel efficiency is a determined by a formula referencing it’s mass, gearing, and drag coefficient.
But you will find quite a lot of people here at FR who were taught some goofy shortcut in college that tries to show that speed to be relatively constant at around 55 MPH.
This is not even on the same constant as truth, and anyone who owned one of those heavy muscled family cars in the 60’s and 70’s will tell them so - but it is like talking to a wall.
So sadly this has spread beyond the social liberals.
I think the tide is turning and I’m doing my part. Anyone who thinks I’m a nutcase is free to purchase my contracts at Intrade and put their money where their mouth is.
The End of Snide Remarks Against Cold Fusion
Free Republic, Gravitronics.net and Intrade ^ | 6/5/09 | kevmo, et al
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2265914/posts
Posted on Friday, June 05, 2009 5:56:08 PM by Kevmo
We see the attempted suppression of physics (by supposed engineers) on tech threads all the time here at Free Republic.
***I see science suppression on FR sometimes as well, mostly on crevo threads but often on energy-related threads.
Fringekookaphobia. When will it end?
God sake chill out!
No comprehendo, senior SpaceBar.
And Maxwell had a lot more than just four equations, too.
Dude, yer the one putting exclamation marks at the end of your post.
For reference later.
I liked it.
The
RELIGION OF SCIENTISM
is one of the most hideous, irrational, narrow, rigid, haughty, brittle, tyrannical, ruthless, punitive . . .
religions on the face of the planet.
It has been so for many decades, at least.
In some respects, Galileo had it easy, by comparison.
. . . except for the deadlier aspects of his situation. LOL.
01000001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110011 01100001 01111001 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110
Exclusive flavors of cleverness abound, it seems. LOL
Never learned the language any more than I learned Klingon.
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