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Quote from Thomas Clarke

There is no matter of retribution. Rends is incorrect: I do not claim to be all those things he says, and no-one would know except that Sifferkol ferretted out what he thinks is my real e-mail and web page.

Nor have I ever claimed to post as a professional - I've said many times I am an amateur. Of course, many here including me would consider themselves professionals but that is a different matter. The soubriqet in my avatar is not a claim from me, it is a grade from Alain's site which indicates the number of posts I have made here.

I realise my sensibilities in this matter may be different from others. But it does not change what they are. I do not post here under my work persona and any explicit link will be rejected by me.

Goodbye, and I can't say I'd want to stay anyway if such behaviour is countenanced.

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But you post under your real name and hint at being somewhat qualified due to your RL experience: this is a way of linking your posts' contents to your RL expertise, which you do not want to show here, while showing it (you use your real name, and hint at being knowledgeable due to RL profession)

Now everybody is confused. How do you want to post? Under the academic umbrella, next to it, away from it?
What will be the best way to ensure everybody understands that nothing can be said due to lack of data, yet that LENR are woowoo, but if this woowoo is real then it's harmful -unlike nuclear fission - ?

I must say I'm a bit worried to witness groupthink possessing someone -who might or might not be mandated- : it really turns one into a less than sentient cog.
That should alone be a good argument against totalitarian regimes, there's nothing good about turning Joes into robots devoid of balanced judgment

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I'm not saddened so much as outraged. Sifferkoll gleefully threatening Thomas Clarke's employment and Rends backing him up fully? Shameful.

What good is your opinion? you're a glorified upvote/downvote machine
I invite anyone to check your posting and likes/dislike history, it's pretty clear why you're here

To prevent your kind from peddling their obfuscating trade, this forum should be closed to non-scientists, and to scientists who have no background to tackle LENR

It would pre-emptively negate shill (or "mainstream" groupthink-possessed) bullshit, and I would be free to do other stuff than playing Internet Police

Something all must understand: you honest and truth-seeking scientific types cannot comprehend how some people are driven by corruption
In my country that drove some geniuses nearly mad -Alexandre Grothendieck, Jean-Pierre Petit-: they could not stomach their colleagues becoming liars just to further their goals, and not truth's (it often has to do with the Military-Industrial Complex, ofc)

You hope that some of the people coming here are not as willfully lying as you dread they might be, and then you act with genuine patience: this only encourages them

They're happy, even if under scrutiny: it makes you researchers lose time responding, also it instills doubt
I'm a woowoo-head but I believe that reality is a consensus, and the world the product of Mind, so when doubt and ridicule abound in a field, it won't yield many results, as people entangled in experimenting have troll seeds sprouting in their unconscious and meddling with the quantum field, ether or whatever

Information Warfare, you're knee-deep in it, and a paradigm shift looms that might solve a lot of issues (ironically, but very strategically, among people who say they care about those, some are only pretending)

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one of the ablest analytical minds from this forum

I am not so sure of that. One of the loudest and most producing I agree but one of the ablest analytical?

As far as i can see everybody who knows how to use google can find your university page. I dont think blaming sifferkoll is the right way to go.

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Perhaps then it is my fault for not having a less identifiable id - I thought both Thomas and Clarke were pretty common

OMG! It's pretty clear to me that you want to both eat the cake and keep it.

One simple question though; why did you advertise your workplace email adress on MY SITE when writing comments on it, if you do not want it to be public? I find that level of ignorance almost hard to comprehend? Especially since you sort of advertise yourself as an analytical mind. BTW! I did not post the email adress, allthough it is easy to find.