U.S. Dept. of Energy Takes A New Look At Cold Fusion

lhouk281 writes "Technology Review is reporting that the U.S. Department of Energy has decided that recent results justify a fresh look at cold fusion. According to Peter Hagelstein, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, experiments performed under properly controlled conditions reliably produce more heat than standard theory predicts, and nuclear products show up in about the right amounts to account for this excess heat. Maybe we'll get those atomic-powered automobiles after all ..."

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Re:same nutbags who brought us CIA ESP research

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And abstinence AIDS prevention.

Uh, I hate to break this to you, Mr. "Scientist", but abstinence is proven to be very nearly 100% effective in preventing AIDS, a conclusion that in no way flies in the face of science, but instead, simply stands to reason. African countries are now pushing abstinence because *it works*, and if they don't, most of their population will be dead in 20 years. (Barring corner cases like birth to an AIDS-infected mother and transfusions, it's fair to say that abstinence is as close to 100% effective as anything ever will be in this world...)

(A good friend of mine is on the board of the Federal Reserve and visited South Africa recently - government officials told him privately that AIDS figures for all African countries are actually far higher than they're willing to admit publicly, and they realize they have to take the most effective actions possible. Barring an actual cure, that's abstinence...)

BTW, although there is certainly some dreadful stuff from some creation scientists, others are doing real, solid, work that is sucessfully changing the consensus scientific view of things - for instance catastrophism theories have resulted in geologists now believing that the Grand Canyon and other similar features are in fact far, far younger than previously believed. Don't be too quick to think you know everything - any good scientist is quick to admit that he doesn't know very much at all going in. And don't be too quick to assume that others are idiots simply because you disagree with their view on certain issues...