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- From: Frank Close <FEC%VAX2.RUTHERFORD.AC.UK@ib.rl.ac.uk>
- Subject: Questions of integrity for Jed Rothwell and Gene Mallove
- Message-ID: <9301071123.AA26213@suntan.Tandem.com>
- Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
- Reply-To: Frank Close <FEC%VAX2.RUTHERFORD.AC.UK@ib.rl.ac.uk>
- Organization: Sci.physics.fusion/Mail Gateway
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:40:55 GMT
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- Jed writes about "facts" that one should weigh "which have been more
- - - conclusively reproduced". Exactly.
-
- I have not said, nor do I agree with, the next several lines within quotes
- that Jed says I am saying.
-
- I note too that you did not answer my question as to "where did I say that
- theory takes preference over experiment". You made great play recently as to
- how you never duck issues Jed, so answer it.
-
- And while you insist on accusing Britz of having made statements on this net
- that might damage your reputation and worse, and now are harping on again
- including Taubes name too, I have to remind you, and readers, that you have
- an outstanding matter in your own name here. You posted, on behalf of Gene
- Mallove your colleague, a statement in early 1992 claiming that I had
- deliberately ignored in Too Hot To Handle important positive data on
- neutrons that would have damaged my thesis, and that had been sent to me
- by Dr. Worledge of EPRI prior to my book. This is utterly false, as anyone
- can confirm by calling Worledge. I have said so explicitly on this net
- and challenged you/Mallove to withdraw or substantiate this libel.
-
- Yet all that you responded, after I challenged on two occasions, was to
- distance yourself as it was Mallove's message:"I am too busy; I will deal with
- you in good time; Gene deals with your province" was the gist of your
- feeling of responsibility. But you acted as his postman Jed; had I posted
- such things for a third party about you and then claimed that it wasn't
- really my business I can imagine the short shrift that you would give it.
-
- The fact that Mallove has his own book in commercial competition with mine
- could make this more than a trifling matter. I recall that you got very
- hot about the possible financial implications if the Japanese took Dieter
- Britz's remarks to heart. It could also have a more serious impact on
- the developing perspective of cold fusion for future commentators.
- Any evaluation of my account of the early history is likely to be based on
- my credibility as an established and internationally known physicist. Were
- Mallove's accusation thought to be true then this would raise serious
- questions about my integrity and sideline Too Hot To Handle as a legitimate
- work of record. So I repeat to you: Mallove is challenged to produce any
- evidence to substantiate his accusations posted on this net about me last year.
- If he refuses, or this challenge is ignored, then at least future historians
- can draw their own conclusions about the integrity of two authors. And net
- readers might also draw their own conclusions about the solidity of some
- of the claims that are posted on this net, if they have not already done so.
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