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If Gully Foyle could teleport, that would drastically change the world, too.
***If gully Foyle had 14,700 replications to back up his claims, I’d be posting teleportation threads every day.

If Hari Seldon could really predict the future using psycho-history, that also would radically change the world.
***If Hari had a multi$billion company like Scientific Instruments looking over peer reviewed results and saying that there is a verified physical anomaly, I’d be posting Hari Kari threads every day.

If Albus Dumbledore could really do magic, that would radically change the world.
***If Dumbledoof had 7 independent scientists investigate his black box while he isn’t even in the room (at some point, not even on the same CONTINENT), and then someone else investigated his claim and pulled out a checkbook for $11M for the technology, I’d be posting his claim as well.

Quantum Mechanics is unbelievable ... but it changed the world.
***How? Where is your QM car or QM Jet Pack or QM water heater? That’s the level we’re talking about. The analogy you’re looking for is the Wright brothers. For 5 years they flew airplanes out in the open and were called frauds because they wouldn’t demo to the satisfaction of those whose intention was to steal their IP. Were they frauds?

The Special Theory of Relativity is unbelievable ... but it changed the world.
***It sure did. It led to the A-Bomb and we all have to live with it now. How exactly was it “unbelievable” at the time? The AdamHenry*Bandwagon Index for Einstein was of no concern at the time.

But no one is skeptical of LENR/CANR/CF because of its world changing potential, nor because of its unbelievability.
***The AdamHenry*Bandwagon joiners were skeptical of the Wright brothers because of its unbelievability.

They’re skeptical because, like Hari Seldon, Gully Foyle, and Albus Dumbledore, and unlike Quantum Physics, it’s fiction.
***Fiction does not have 14,700 replications to back up its claim. So it turns out, you’re skeptical for the same reason the scientific luminaries of the Wright brothers’ day were: the AdamHenry*Bandwagon index for LENR is low. But those skeptics were wrong, weren’t they? And they were wrong for very, very similar reasons that you are wrong today.