http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/11/e ... iew-panel/Max Hugoson (13:55:05) :
I wish everyone would stop pretending that “Nature” had any credibility at all.
Over the years every paper by any “quack”, who they could “put up” as a “legitimate scientist” (usually because of a quirk in university tenure laws, which don’t allow you to fire someone just because they’ve become “flakey”, who wrote some alleged paper, which exaggerated, or made some bogus case against nuclear power…was published without the slightest hesitation.
Being anti-nuclear power is, well, for the LEFT, completely acceptable.
In 1999, after completing a series of exhaustive testing of an IEC (Inertial Electrostatic Confinement) fusion device, Dr. George Miley submitted (with his Phd Graduate student, Brian Dysjerack, a paper to Nature…about the results of their work. The SINGLE PEER REVIEWER rejected the paper, on the basis that, “The IEC or Farnsworth Fusor, CANNOT WORK.” He sent Dr. Miley a 1972 paper by some fellows at Oak Ridge, that showed that the IEC device “cannot, theoretically” cause any fusion reactions to occur.
Suffice it to say, this was a shock to Dr. Miley (and now Dr. Dysjerack) who had spent a couple years measuring the 10 Billion D fusion neutrons (5 MeV) per second coming from the device when powered up.
Now let’s talk about BIG MONEY! I.e., the Tokomak “Tribe”. They will not broach ANY competition. Just look up IEC and note that the Tokomaks DO have a lot of competition. But for NATURE to be so HAUGHTY, so, “We walk on water, and the rest of you fools are such rubbish…” HA! Laughable. Nature is really a dinosaur waiting to die.
"Peer" review in Physics
"Peer" review in Physics
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