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- From: jim@netlink.cts.com (Jim Bowery)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Re: Pressure to get it right
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- Date: 20 Jul 92 14:11:52 GMT
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- Jed Rothwell writes:
- >Pretend that someone has handed you a multimeter and a thermometer and
- said,
- >"measure the amps, volts, and temperature of that cell. Be sure you get the
- >temperature right to within one degree C. If you get it wrong, our
- government
- >will loose $100 million, and you will spend the rest of your life working
- at
- >MacDonalds."
- >
- >Would you do the work carefully? Would you repeat the measurement over
- again,
- >to be sure you got it right? Of course you would!
-
- Jed, while I agree that the DoE, academic (esp MIT) congressional, etc.
- figures you point to have committed abomidable crimes against humanity
- as well as engaging in the lesser crime of treason against the U.S.,
- I disagree with you on at lest 2 points:
-
- 1) They were guilty of these acts of treachery independent of cold fusion's
-
- ultimate status. When it comes to seeing these people hang, I couldn't
- care less about whether cold fusion ultimately supports or proves wrong
- their early, self-serving and politically motivated opposition to the most
- modest cold fusion investigations in contrast to their deafening silence
- toward the hundreds of millions of dollars per year going to the Tokamak.
- That inconsistency, alone, is sufficient to justify conviction under the
- Nuremberg precident not to mention a number of lesser counts of
- malfeasance, corruption and high treason. The only reason I wouldn't
- include Mallove in that list is because he had the honor to resign his
- position at MIT. That doesn't make him a hero anymore than refusal to
- join the Nazi party made a German citizen a hero in the 1930's. Any
- honorable person would do the same in the same situation. On the other
- hand, Hagelstein's speculative spray of cold fusion patents out of MIT,
- even as MIT acted to prevent others from investigating cold fusion,
- implicates Hagelstein in MIT's crimes against humanity. At best,
- Hagelstein has no honor and at worst Hagelstein has a central role
- in MIT's treachery.
-
- 2) The whole reason we have to deal with the aforementioned situation
- is that, under the policy of technosocialism (ie: government-funded
- technical accomplishment as opposed to "industrial policy" which is
- government guided incentives for privately funded technical
- accomplishment) it is simply impractical to hold people accountable
- for their actions, as you seem to believe the Japanese government
- is going to do via it's MITI-funded cold-fusion program. It is no
- accident that the chief advocate of technosocialism is an MIT economist.
- TECHNOSOCIALISM IS THE SINGLE MOST DESTRUCTIVE POLICY BEING PURSUED
- BY THE UNITED STATES AND, INDEED, THE WORLD. It stifles humanity's
- greatest gift in the one nation where it matters the most: Innovation
- in the United States. This is what generates the negative-sum world
- view with its increasing race-hatred, crime, violence and corruption.
-
- Ending technosocialism will promote the positive-sum world view
- and its behaviors of love of diversity, creativity, peace and justice.
-
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