From: jim@netlink.cts.com (Jim Bowery)
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
Subject: Re: Pressure to get it right
Date: 20 Jul 92 14:11:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: netlink.HyR8NB2w164w
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

Jed Rothwell writes:
>Pretend that someone has handed you a multimeter and a thermometer and 
said,
>"measure the amps, volts, and temperature of that cell. Be sure you get the
>temperature right to within one degree C. If you get it wrong, our 
government
>will loose $100 million, and you will spend the rest of your life working 
at
>MacDonalds."
>
>Would you do the work carefully? Would you repeat the measurement over 
again,
>to be sure you got it right? Of course you would!
 
Jed, while I agree that the DoE, academic (esp MIT) congressional, etc. 
figures you point to have committed abomidable crimes against humanity 
as well as engaging in the lesser crime of treason against the U.S.,
I disagree with you on at lest 2 points:
 
1)  They were guilty of these acts of treachery independent of cold fusion's 

ultimate status.  When it comes to seeing these people hang, I couldn't
care less about whether cold fusion ultimately supports or proves wrong
their early, self-serving and politically motivated opposition to the most 
modest cold fusion investigations in contrast to their deafening silence 
toward the hundreds of millions of dollars per year going to the Tokamak.  
That inconsistency, alone, is sufficient to justify conviction under the 
Nuremberg precident not to mention a number of lesser counts of 
malfeasance, corruption and high treason.  The only reason I wouldn't
include Mallove in that list is because he had the honor to resign his
position at MIT.  That doesn't make him a hero anymore than refusal to
join the Nazi party made a German citizen a hero in the 1930's.  Any 
honorable person would do the same in the same situation.  On the other
hand, Hagelstein's speculative spray of cold fusion patents out of MIT, 
even as MIT acted to prevent others from investigating cold fusion, 
implicates Hagelstein in MIT's crimes against humanity.  At best, 
Hagelstein has no honor and at worst Hagelstein has a central role 
in MIT's treachery.
 
2) The whole reason we have to deal with the aforementioned situation
is that, under the policy of technosocialism (ie: government-funded
 technical accomplishment as opposed to "industrial policy" which is
 government guided incentives for privately funded technical 
 accomplishment) it is simply impractical to hold people accountable
for their actions, as you seem to believe the Japanese government
is going to do via it's MITI-funded cold-fusion program.  It is no 
accident that the chief advocate of technosocialism is an MIT economist.
TECHNOSOCIALISM IS THE SINGLE MOST DESTRUCTIVE POLICY BEING PURSUED
BY THE UNITED STATES AND, INDEED, THE WORLD.  It stifles humanity's 
greatest gift in the one nation where it matters the most:  Innovation 
in the United States.  This is what generates the negative-sum world 
view with its increasing race-hatred, crime, violence and corruption.

Ending technosocialism will promote the positive-sum world view
and its behaviors of love of diversity, creativity, peace and justice.

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