Good science is not be clouded with smoke and mirrors. It is not shrouded with some mysterious pseudoscience jargon. Good science stands alone, naked with all its content revealed for everyone to see. He meant that a new idea in science or technology would only be accepted when it could be witnessed and proved by others. Thus, those wild and crazy ideas about a new energy source must be backed up by cold hard scientific test results that could be duplicated.
Fantastic claims demand equally remarkable proofs.
Those ideas that don't pass the test are rejected. Inventions that are prime examples of fringe science include free energy, perplexing forces and perpetual motion machines. I am a college graduate with 30 years of hands-on science and engineering experience under my belt. So, I find it very difficult to swallow the claims from the inventors that defy scientific explanation. I believe these are just examples of bad science.