GDR writes:
One of the things that does make me suspicious of the science is exactly what we see in this post.
You posted a general reply, not a reply to a specific message, so I couldn't tell what post you were referring to.
A highly qualified and respected scientist makes the point that there is an agenda in play, and a lack of scientific objectivity in the institution that is charged with researching the issue.
You seem to be ignoring everything already said that calls this characterization into question. In a world where billions of people can call attention to themselves through the Internet one does have to have a reasonability filter. Lewis isn't passing mine right now.
Fleishmann and Pons were respected chemists who drew immediate ridicule from knowledgeable corners of the physics community when they announced cold fusion. John A. Davison produced legitimate papers for years before going crazy around age 40 or so. Lewis' letter opens like this:
Lewis writes:
When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood...
Corruption? Money flood? The American Physical Society?
With the Internet huge numbers of issues clamor for our attention. If you want to make the dispassionate evidence-based argument that Lewis failed to make, go ahead. But given what's been provided so far I'm giving Lewis minimal credibility.
Some of us who are a little older, certainly me and I'm guessing maybe Coragyps based on a couple recent comments, can understand Lewis looking at his world and thinking it has gone crazy. I look around me at all the mindless cell-phone babbling and smart phone obsessing and definitely believe my own world has gone crazy. To me it seems obvious that at 87 Lewis is expressing his frustration at a world he no longer understands, a world where he has lost his former prestige and influence and become superfluous.
Change is inevitable. You have to embrace the future, otherwise you end up embittered and imprisoned in your own past.
--Percy
Edited by Admin, : Punctuation.