I've been saying this for years. It's not just ITER that's a waste of R&D effort, it's most of the human enterprise of "science". "Scientists" have just become politicians with science diplomas. So many are proud of their contributions of "debunking" cold fusion, for example. When I read peer reviewed papers in my own field, it's truly amazing how many are utterly wrong or fraudulent. But they use all the latest scientific buzzwords and are dressed up with some graphs and equations, so they are published.
We have witnessed the serial liar Tony Fauci describe himself as "representing science". If this creepy homunculus is right, we are in deep trouble. ITER continues because the people involved want more funding, even though they are fully aware that they are nowhere near break-even, or that it can never be achieved. They just want their salaries and big budget equipment to continue at tax payer expense. Researching something useful would just be too boring. Don't even get me started on the Large Hadron Collider. Many think that the Chinese have made so many advances in scientific research as to be unstoppable, but they have bought into it as well. After all the "I" in ITER stands for international. They have built the most powerful fusion donut yet. I hope they have fun with it. The CCP might just execute the lot of their ITER researchers when the tyrannical regime discovers they've been had. The coffin nail in American scientific enterprise to me was when Scientific American published an article advising how to protect yourself against "toxic masculinity". Now there's something scientists should really delve into. ------- Original Message ------- On Wednesday, February 16th, 2022 at 4:46 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > The dishonesty and the economic waste of this R&D effort is alarming > > http://news.newenergytimes.net/2022/02/15/open-letter-to-editors-of-science/
