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From: [e-mail] (Terry Bollinger)
Subject: Terry's Two Bits
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Hi folks,

A couple of quick items.  First this:

> Newsgroups: sci.physics
> From: [e-mail] (Didier Depireux)
> Subject: WHAT'S NEW, FRIDAY, 13 NOVEMBER 1992
> Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
> Organization: Universite Laval, Ste-Foy, Quebec (Canada)
> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 22:31:37 GMT
>
> WHAT'S NEW, FRIDAY, 13 NOVEMBER 1992               WASHINGTON, DC
>
> .....
>
> 4. IS COLD FUSION PRACTICAL?  IT IS IF YOU OWNED STOCK IN NTT
> prior to the Third International Cold Fusion Conference in Nagoya
> on 21 Sept [sic].  Two scientists from Nippon Telephone and Telegraph
> held a press conference to announce that they had detected excess
> heat and helium in a reproducible cold fusion experiment.  NTT
> stock rose 11% on the news. NTT is one of the biggest stock
> capitalization companies in the world. The paper profits after
> the cold fusion announcement were nearly $8 billion.
>
> Robert L. Park  [phone]       The American Physical Society

If the above figures are accurate, then I owe Dr. Frank Close a major
apology for having repeatedly told him in private emails that I simply
did not believe that the social aspects of the "cnf" were all that
significant these days.  Clearly in Japan they are.  (Sic' em, Frank!)

I would also add that since I work in a Japanese firm (NEC) myself, my
advice to any coworkers impressed by the Nagoya conference is that they
should be very, VERY careful about taking such a weak set of results
seriously.  Mr. Rothwell has nicely established that the flavor of the
conference more closely resembled a football game than anything one
might normally call an exchange of scientific data.

(The game strategy, I take it, was to tackle anyone who disagrees with
the Pro Heat Team, then proclaim victory as soon as the field has been
cleared of dissenting voices, such as Dr. Morrison's.  A most curious
way to hold a scientific conference, that...)

.....

By the way:  Mr. Rothwell, perhaps you could help me out by answering
a little question that you seem to have missed or sidestepped several
times in the past.  Whenever I go over your recent postings I am struck by
how much your ad hominem style of argumentation resembles some delightful
examples of Lyndon LaRouche literature I once collected.  In particular,
the ability to go from direct personal attacks of nearly everyone in
sight to moaning about the rude "manners" of uncouth Americans such
as Dr. Jones is something that not just any person is capable of doing.

Can you clear this up for us once and for all?  Have you ever in any
way been funded by the LaRouche organization for your efforts?  Have
you ever written any article for them or any of their many front
magazines?  Have you ever attended their meetings?  Do you espouse the
same political candidates as they?  Have you ever done them any favors
by promulgating their ideas in Japan, where LaRouche is far less known?

Now mind you, since you have adamantly and repeatedly told us what a
highly scientific gentleman you are (I believe it was right in between
the email telling us to disregard Tom Droege's careful techniques and
another one that said something to the effect that smart people should
look for "bubbles," not measurements), I have no doubt that you will
surely disavow all knowledge of LaRouche and his organization.  That is
why I wish to get it out in the open, though, so you can CLEARLY have it
on the record that you have no ties to the LaRouche organization and its
various fronts.

That way, the next time you attack the integrity of [hmm, whom have you
NOT attacked?  Preparata?  perhaps he's next?  Dr. P, beware!] we will
truly and without any doubt know that it is YOU who are speaking, and not
some silly off-the-wall group that spends thousands of dollars to put up
huge billboards on Route 7 in Virginia to tell President Bush to eat
broccolli.

We anxiously await your total renuciation of any past or current association
with Lyndon LaRouche and his various organizations.

                Have a nice day,
                Terry Bollinger
                (Speaking for myself only, of course)


P.S. --    Hey Dr. Prep, DID you ever get Bell's Inequality straight, or not?

    While paper ripping IS a good sign of a young, open mind (my six
    year old used to do it before he grew up, too), it's just not quite
    enough evidence to convince me that all those investors are getting
    their theoretical money's worth.  Oh well, I suspect they'll figure
    it out for themselves when they don't get their cold fusion hand
    warmers on schedule.  Que sera sera ...

       (oh dear, that *was* a bit ad hominem of me, wasn't it?)