Ah yes poor poor Peter. Peter was hired by the MIT physics deparment for inventing the X-ray laser (actually some other guys did that) Peter then wrote a bunch of papers on cold fusion. The Physics department then dropped him, but the electrical engineering deparment offered him tenure (associate professor - look it up). He has never been made full professor, but cannot be fired.
Another problem with Sihna's work, which Kevmo keeps screaming about, is that he plagerized much of it from those early papers of Hagelstein's, and most of Sinha's wrong ideas are actually Hagelstein's wrong ideas. But I did not mention that because Sinha published them, and so he is responsible for them, purloined errors and all.
Ah, yes. And why was that, pray tell. Last I heard there was this thing called "academic freedom", which supposedly lets professors explore any area they like. If they didn't agree with his papers, the proper place for that discussion is in the peer-reviewed literature, not the faculty hiring/firing desk. But no, you "classic physics" types have been running a clandestine witch hunt ever since Pons and Fleischmann. Hagelstein isn't the only one to fall victim to it.
Same tactics (and folks with the same academic roots...physicists) used by the "Climategate" team.
I could care less about the theory. Tell me why the experiments are wrong.
Another problem with Sihna’s work, which Kevmo keeps screaming about, is that he plagerized
***Then bring it up at the appropriate scientific level so we can see whether your criticisms hold water with people who have as much background as you. Or... are you too much of a coward to do that?
much of it from those early papers of Hagelstein’s,
***So... Hagelstein is no good because he doesn’t have status at MIT but he’s good enough to plagiarize from? Which is it?
and most of Sinha’s wrong ideas are actually Hagelstein’s wrong ideas.
***Then publish your criticism at the appropriate PHD Physics level.
But I did not mention that because Sinha published them, and so he is responsible for them, purloined errors and all.
***The more I read your posts, the more I’m reminded of those loud scientists who kept saying “rocks don’t fall from the sky”. The only problem is that they DO fall from the sky.