Purdue reprimands fusion scientist for misconduct
August 28, 2008(AP) -- Purdue University on Wednesday reprimanded a scientist who has been accused of falsifying claims he produced nuclear fusion in tabletop experiments.
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Let's see, science by consensus...Global Warming or is it cooling? Down-grading of Pluto while the majority is absent. Stiffle desent under the guise, or lie, of free speech. What's going on? Or is the action by a committe of his peers supposed to symbolize trial by jury? "...Denied appeal..." would seem to fit the political climate at this moment if this were Denver.
Either this fusion works or it doesn't. If the effect is not fusion then what is the cause? Has anyone meticulously tried to replicate the experiment? No? Oh, my gosh! Shades of Cold Fusion. There is, clearly, some effect occurring so why not modify the standard model to include what is going on? This and other anomalies happen too often to be measurement error.
Let's do the "American thing" and take legal action.
Sad! Very sad, indeed.
The whole story is at newenergytimes.com, and there are links to Taleyarkhan's attorney's website where they have published their appeal. They have at least one affidavit from a Purdue employee; VERY interesting read.
Taleyarkhin, et.al. have also just published a response (Nuclear Engineering and Design?) to the poorly done work of a UCLA student of Seth Putterman (professional jealousy?) which was posted on a website and used by Nature or Science to cast doubt on Tale's work.
What really pisses one off is that egos, politics and petty jealousies can cause so much hassle for good science, especially when this involves a potential new clean energy source that is so desperately needed...
-PhysicsEng
LOL. How somebody can be accused from something, which everybody can read in many places on the web?
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"...the committee%u2019s findings %u2018have no relevance at all to whether his research is correct and his results are valid%u2019"
Why the very last scientists, who are willing to study the cold fusion process are ostracized, when we are facing the global energy crisis and subsequent geopolitical instabilities?
http://lenr-canr....Navy.htm
http://www.newene...ET21.htm
http://lenr-canr....onar.pdf
http://nextbigfut...sis.html
Are the physicists so impotent or stupid, they cannot even ATTEMPT to replicate the hundred dollar experiments with infra-camera or piece of CR-39 plastic during six years - while they finished the LHC for about 7 billion Euros inbetween? Are these controversial and dangerous LHC experiments more important for civilization and life environment, then the research of clean sources of energy?
What we are waiting for? For WWW III or something else?