[extropy-chat] Cold Fusion Survey

[Ben Goertzel]

Robin Hanson wrote:
> At 05:58 AM 2/12/2007, Eugen* Leitl wrote:
>   
>>> offer (publicly or privately) estimates or bounds for
>>> these four probabilities:
>>> 1A. The probability that CF excess heat is a real phenomena, as
>>> opposed to misleading experimental technique.
>>>       
>> The point is that the experiments are so bad we can't tell.
>>     

BTW you did not review the McKubre experiments (identified by Beaudette 
as the first
strong replications of the phenomenon), only some apparently 
quasi-randomly selected ones from
a website

So, making a blanket statement such as the above seems to be unjustified 
based on the evidence
that you have reviewed (unless you have reviewed more evidence recently 
and not discussed it here).

-- Ben