Every meme has some truth in it and also some untruth. So in general, a meme is a mixture of propositions that are both truth and untruth. Taking this reality to heart is what an open mind is about. The willingness to extract the truth from any given meme is not generally found at this current time. Evaluating many memes for a correlation of commonality of truth is an intellectual skill that many do not have in this current age.
For example, there are experimental observations that fusion is occurring in LENR. Nuclear physics completely reject fusion because ionizing radiation and neutron production is not seen in LENR based fusion. Recognizing that this is an issue in the acceptance of LENR, Hagelstein has spent decades unsuccessfully trying to explain how fusion can occur without ionizing radiation and neutron production. But he has not come up with how such a thing can happen.
Nuclear physics should have accepted that transmutation was happening in LENR and looked more broadly for a cause outside of the standard ionizing radiation/neutron production meme. But nuclear scientists reject the entire LENR meme without accepting transmutation as a true experimental observation.
In another example, the naysayers cannot accept LENR unless excess heat is generated in the LENR reaction even when transmutation is observed. The naysayers cannot extract any truth from the LENR meme because that meme does not completely meet their expectations about what LENR should be.
Looking for truth is not an ability that most can perform since truth fails to meet the expectations of the observers that are looking for truth. This search for truth might need to wait for another open mind like Einstein reappears on the scene or for artificial intelligence to reach a higher level of development where human nature is not an issue.
