[extropy-chat] Elvis Sightings

[Damien Broderick]

At 12:00 PM 2/4/2007 -0500, John K Clark wrote:
>"Ben Goertzel" <ben at goertzel.org>
>
> > many of the replicators have been  respected
> > scientists at decent universities
>
>And yet these respected scientists at decent universities prefer to be
>published in Spoon Bending Digest rather than Nature or Science. How odd.

It would only be odd if Nature and Science did not have a policy in 
place of refusing to consider papers on this topic, since the topic 
is agreed to be MEGA-BULLSHIT. There must be a way for controversial 
claims to break through such an impasse, but it's not obvious how. 
Presumably if any of the researchers ever develop a highly reliable 
fuel cell and put it on the market without getting successfully 
prosecuted for fraud, there'll be some mild throat-clearing and the 
papers will start to appear. Nothing succeeds like excess 
(heat)--although it took long enough for the greenhouse effect to be accepted.

Damien Broderick