[Waldozer]

Once again, you manage to evade the issues and resort to ad hominem attacks. This is very typical for people who find reacting to new information a threatening prospect. Your ridicule disproves nothing.

Here's a quote from a very famous electrical engineer, the man who originated and patented the idea of using space based repeaters. Nowadays, we call them communications satellites. The man's name is Sir Arthur C. Clarke (he also wrote a few popular books).

"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, his is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong."

By choosing to slander the Society for Scientific Exploration, you merely display your disdain for what you do not wish to consider. That society is not promoting the ideas you ridicule. They investigate in a scientific manner, claims that may seem outlandish (like cold fusion). In my brief exposure to their work, papers are produced by persons with high academic standing that are as dry, methodical and conservative as any I see in traditional journals. The difference is the subject matter. Sometimes they find evidence to support claims, sometimes they do not. If Claytor decides to attend one of their conferences, it may be because he has come to realize that there are certain taboo areas of research, like cold fusion, which the established scientific community is not ready to consider. Perhaps his frustration has turned to curiosity about what else being scientifically investigated is being ignored.

Would you not agree that any subject matter can be studied scientifically, if only as a matter of the psychology of the claimants?

[js1138]

I've waited 20 years of so for someone to demonstrate a significant amount of cold fusion -- say an amount above the noise level of instruments. I expect to wait the rest of my life.

[Right Wing Professor]

By choosing to slander the Society for Scientific Exploration, you merely display your disdain for what you do not wish to consider.

That's right. Kooks is kooks. It isn't hard to discern them, and most successful people do it in a reliable way. Those who can't, fashion helmets out of tinfoil to keep the alien brain waves out.

Would you not agree that any subject matter can be studied scientifically, if only as a matter of the psychology of the claimants?

No. You can't scientificaly address the existence of God, to name but one of 100 examples.