Display MoreThanks for that Jed, I do not doubt your ability to do this.
However i still have doubts over KevMo's interest in science - as opposed to attacking people.
From his thread above, KevMo make a few attacks, and his first science statement is as follows:
Do you see Dolly the Sheep as a "fact from heaven"? It's never been replicated. Lots of "facts from heaven" have had only 2 or 3 replications. 153 replications, well that's significant, especially if they're from what Jed calls the "who's who of electrochemistry".
I can't see much science in this. I guess it shows an acquaintance with early cloning experiments. But it is a very bad comparison from which to reason about LENR. In the case of Dolly a technology (SCNT) that is very unreliable is used to replace a cell nucleus. The result, when it works, is a clone. Whether that technique could ever clone live sheep was not known till Dolly. It has not been replicated because people shortly after found much better cloning technology and used it in preference.
But there was no serious question that Dolly's existence could be experimental error. The difference between a dead foetus and a live sheep is pretty clear, You have to be very careless to confuse the two - ane even if you are careless in that way the fact that Dolly was indeed a real clone was verified many times through DNA testing. That is the opposite of LENR experiments where, in that thread, Kirk was suggesting that those replications could be errors, systematic or one-off. (Kirk was keen on one specific class of sytematic error).
KevMo's argument here is completely fallacious. And familiar to us on this thread for its superficial correctness masking a flaw based on lack of context.
@KevMo. Perhaps I'm being unfair. Do you have another science comment we could review?
@KevMo. Perhaps I'm being unfair. Do you have another science comment we could review?
***To be candid, after looking through the first few pages of that thread it is obvious by your long-winded sidling up to Shanahan's crackpot theory that you belong alongside him. So, that's fine. It was a pure science thread that I posted and seagulls such as yourself polluted it. You're so concerned about the "tone" of this forum, but I invite lurkers to look over there and see for themselves.
Or perhaps I'm being unfair, since your comments are now locked...