[ExI] Cold fusion: some new results.

[Benjamin Goertzel]

Naturwissenschaften is a reasonably high-quality
magazine, with a respectable impact factor.

As for your bet: The problem is that, as discussed already,
the decision of certain leading journals to ban papers on
cold fusion seems to have been a particularly "subjective"
human decision, even more so than the average decision
within the (never of course totally "objective") scientific
community.  So whether or not one of those journals publishes
a paper on CF in the next year depends on the mood and
attitudinal changes of their editors, as much as on anything
else.  But I figure a big enough breakthrough in CF would
overcome their bad attitudes toward CF.  I am pretty confident
a sufficiently large breakthrough will occur in the next 10-15 years,
but maybe not the next 1 year, given the fairly small amount
of attention and funding being devoted to CF...

-- Ben



On 5/8/07, John K Clark <jonkc at att.net> wrote:
>
> "Damien Broderick" <thespike at satx.rr.com>
>
> > 6th highest citation impact for 2000-2004
>
> And did you see who was #8? The Royal Society Of New Zealand! And in 2003
> Scientific American was #5 and Naturwissenschaften was #7. Scientific
> American?!
>
> I don't know what sort of weed the guy who dreamed up that list was
> smoking
> but I'd like to get some. But if I'm wrong and Naturwissenschaften really
> is
> a wonderful journal then I just don't understand why nobody will take my
> bet. It's easy money.
>
>   John K Clark
>
>
>
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