On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> To summarize Cude's position: > > He does not believe in the scientific method, replication, high signal to > noise ratios, peer review, calorimetry or the laws of thermodynamics. To be > exact, he believe that whatever pops into his own mind, or what he says "I > believe," automatically overrules all of the above and the other 400 years > of academic science. > Most of those things are tools, and I believe in them like I believe in hammers. But no matter how much you believe in hammers, it doesn't mean you can build a house. Outside the field of cold fusion, scientific progress has continued apace, indicating the scientists are using the tools of science effectively. And in the judgement of most of these scientists, with these tools at their disposal, the likelihood of anything interesting going on in cold fusion experiments is very remote. Inside the field of cold fusion, progress has been stalled for a long time. Someone at the India meeting wrote somewhere (maybe on NET), that the meeting was pretty uninteresting, and that the field is moribund. So, it would seem the scientists doing work on cold fusion don't know how to swing a hammer.
