[blackdog]

I thought Lyndon LaRouche's scientist friends licked the fusion problem in 1985? Someone should have told Sandia physicists huh?

[Poohbah]

No, they just designed an X-Ray laser for his personal doomsday weapon :o)

[aruanan]

I thought Lyndon LaRouche's scientist friends licked the fusion problem in 1985? Someone should have told Sandia physicists huh?

No, those scientists featured in Fusion were legitimate. The reporting of their research was used by LL in Fusion to legitimize and push his agenda. He did the same thing with the strategic defense initiative. I read about it first in Fusion.

I remember once seeing a photo published in Fusion of a Fusion employee that supposedly taken with a particular fusion scientist at some function. The LL Fusion employee was standing there grinning at the camera and the scientist had a really surprised look like, "Who the hell is this person standing next to me getting her picture taken?" It was obviously not a photograph of a couple of people who knew each other and were talking. For some reason I think the woman's name was Marsha. I remember writing to her and saying that I enjoyed reading about developments around the world in fusion, but that I thought LL's approach to the economy was rather dirigiste. She replied in a somewhat hysterical tone asking me why I said that.