Heavy Watergate: The War Against Cold Fusion
On March 23, 1989, respected chemists, Dr. Stanley Pons and Dr. Martin Fleishman made an announcement that rocked the world of science.
Their tabletop experiments with heavy water, a renewable resource readily available in ocean water, yielded enormous amounts of heat energy. Appropriately named, “Cold Fusion,” this breakthrough challenged many basic scientific concepts.
In response, a group of powerful physicists, heavily reliant upon government funding for their hot fusion research, leveled an unprecedented smear campaign against Pons, Fleishman and the entire field of Cold Fusion science. Was the discovery of Fire From Water too good to be true? Or was it the discovery of the millennium? (Excerpt from epiphanypictures.com)
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I’ve seen and read accounts of the same information and i believe it’s a fair portrayal of not only the quest for cold fusion but also the corruption and pomp of mainstream science. As more ego and money comes into play (government grants etc), and corporate greed, science is inevitably skewed. I wish more people would take this seriously instead of filing it under the (easier to deal with) label of conspiracy.
Mainstream science is a dismal reflection of the degeneracy of human nature. We laud them as being the epitome of integrity and upstanding in pursuing diverse objectives for the advancement of the human race. But sadly, the opposite is the case, with exception of the few illustrated in this film. Mainstream science is no different to the fraudsters, harlots and charlatans within politics – psychopaths!
The genuine scientist, the ‘real’ scientist is the one who is not interested in accolades for his work, nor high rewards, but pursues his objectives with a diligent open mind, forever seeking perfection of his art, changing his ideas according to new discoveries, ever learning, ever seeking the ‘truth’ as his goal. And the genuine scientist is not necessarily academically trained; he is an intuitive scientist, the genuine article, a real human being.
This is to good to be true. Did anyone catch him saying iron into platnium?
I watched the first half of this and would have only watched the first few minutes if I had some other entertainment readily available at the time while I was busy with a menial task. I was amazed. I was astounded. I had never seen such absurd and flagrant propaganda in all my life outside of creationist videos and Fox News/O’Reilly Factor. And yes, I am including “Triumph of the Will” in the word “never” there. What is possibly even more astounding is the other comments I see above. What sheep you all are, with the exception of carl hendershot.
How can anyone with a functional brain fall for this ****? They endlessly demonize the “scientific mainstream”, yet in their unbiased investigation they never actually TALK to any of these people to hear THE MANY REASONS WHY it was all not just bad science, but an epic fail. They demonize the peer-review process itself and actually praise them for going to the press instead, they make other logical fallacies like having the ULTIMATE nerve to compare it to Nikola Tesla’s AC electrical system, which is about like George W. Bush having compared himself to Abraham Lincoln in his little speech in Springfield Illinois.
They outright lie, claiming that it had been widely reproduced, when in fact just about everyone who had claimed to reproduce it immediately said “oh, my bad, I set up my experiment wrong”. But perhaps I am cheating a bit. I have outside knowledge beyond this video about the debacle. Do you want to know where the excess heat came from in the end? The ****** had a metal thermometer which was connected into their circuit in the mix with the other electrodes. They measured the current into their circuit with an ammeter that was in series with the electrode they knew about, but 5 times that current was going through the metal thermometer which was sitting in the liquid alongside it. Now is that boneheaded or what?
The neutrons they claimed, it turned out they were too incompetent to use a neutron detector. A neutron detector responds just to plain ordinary heat as well as neutrons, and so you need to subtract the effects of heat to see if there are neutrons, but the ****** chemists did not. It all reminds me of an old humorous story from my 9th grade Geometry class which I always remember: a scientist wishes to determine if a flea’s ears are in its legs. So she takes 100 fleas and teaches them to jump on command. She then pulls off the legs of all 100 fleas and gives them the command to jump, and not one of them does. She thus concludes that, indeed, a flea without its legs cannot hear.
The chemists managed to accomplish one thing with their fiasco. To undermine the status of chemists as scientists. There may be a human tendency to side with the underdog. But there comes a point when doing so is to side with an ignorant buffoon against an expert. Be it the born again Christian at your door who tells you that there is no evidence in the fossil record in support of evolution and that all of biology has had it wrong for the last 150 years, or be it a chemist, whose course curriculum probably didn’t even have calculus as a requirement, going up against Glen Seaborg and the rest of the old school scientists who were still around from the Manhattan Project who seriously knew what they were frigging doing.
We should all keep an open mind.
Lots of things thought imposible in the past are now a reality like the Hutchinson effect.
If it turns out to be true then we have gained so much.
And if it turns out that it does not work we have lost nothing. and still gained knowledge..