Guys, we need to get a few facts straight, here:
Eugene F. Mallove was NOT a leading scientist working on Cold Fusion. He championed its cause (in spite of the problems) but he was not one of the
scientists on it. He championed the muchly discounted (because nobody could replicate it) "cold fusion" experiment of 1989.
www.boston.com...
He did appear on Art Bell and other such programs, and he wrote a book -- but he's not the only one to do so. He was a science writer -- NOT a
leading researcher.
What would be the motive behind "silencing" *him*... rather than, say, the scientists working on "cold fusion"? If someone wanted cold fusion
suppressed, why not instead whack someone like Harvard's Hagelstein?
www.physicstoday.org...
Or McCubre (same article) or Hekman, who has an alternative energy company and actually got the DOE hearing? Or off the scientists who were originally
intending to ask the DOE for a reassessment?
Surely if there was a conspiracy, killing the university-based scientists who are actually producing the results and publicizing them (and who have
research students working on this) is far better than killing off someone who is an advocate-writer, but who is not doing any of the work himself.
[Edited on 17-5-2004 by Byrd]