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Re: taboo science and politics



At 11:17 AM 5/5/97 CST, you wrote:
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 07:30:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: William Beaty <billb@eskimo.com>

Be aware that [cold fusion] is "taboo science".

One good guideline for evaluating any out-of-the-mainstream
claims is "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".
The fact that Fleishman and Pons went to the Utah legislature
and the popular press, rather than going through normal peer
review, and that their work could not be replicated by other labs,
properly consigned it to the fringe. I am certain that any solid,
reproducible, experimental evidence for cold fusion would bring it
back into the mainstream.


Stanley J. McCaslin Inet: mccaslin@bobcat.peru.edu
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Phone:402/872-2208
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