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- From: tomk@netcom.com (Thomas H. Kunich)
- Subject: Re: Lecture Notice
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.170450.17391@netcom.com>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:04:50 GMT
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- In article <eLXLuB1w165w@netlink.cts.com> jim@netlink.cts.com (Jim Bowery) writes:
-
- >Why any researcher who genuinely believes they have replicated
- >some aspect of the P&F "excess heat" would consider MIT worthy
- >of their attention is beyond me. MIT has gone out of its way
- >to establish itself, along with Cal Tech and other major "academic"
- >institutions, as irrationally opposed to alternative fusion
- >technologies while irrationally favoring proven idiocy such as
- >the Tokamak. They no longer have any credibility.
- >
- I think that a restatement of the above observations is that
- MIT, in an effort to counter the irrational hysteria surrounding
- the so-called 'cold nuclear fusion', has demanded strict scientific
- evidence and a reasonable theory to support the expensive research
- that would have to go into it.
-
- On this net we have seen Tom Droege, a fine scientist, make a few
- mistakes that led him to erroneously believe that he had positive results.
- But he checked his work and found his own errors. Notoya, with all due
- respect, certainly did not. And this is the sort of thing that MIT
- doesn't want to be associated with.
-
- And it seems imminently reasonable to me.
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