Letter from Bob Bass to Paul M. Moore, August 22, 2000.

Paul M. Moore
Front Page Editor
Baltimore Sun

re: Front Page story about (& color photo of) Bob Park

Dear Mr. Moore [& please forward also to Higher-Ed reporter Michael Hill],

Thanks for talking with me.  I would like to get Michael Hill's e-address so 
that I can send him further info about the misdeeds of Bob Park (besides getting 
two Patent Examiners fired and getting two scheduled Conferences at public 
auditoriums canceled at the 11th hour because they offended Park's personal 
beliefs as to what is and what is not "good science").

Park tried to publicly humiliate top executives of BAE SYSTEMS (in the UK), by 
saying that they must be ill-informed about basic physics for supporting 
research at British universities pertaining to gravity control & modification 
(that was published in respectable journals before the Parks of this world 
realized the implications for undermining their preferred dogmas and raised a 
furore).  Although I'm employed by BAE SYSTEMS as a Digital Communications 
Engineer in Southern Maryland, I was proud that my employers' UK-management 
includes at least 3 Ph.D.'s who are not intimidated by the APS, but now I 
personally resent Park's disparagement of them on the BBC!

If Mr. Hill will go the Washington Post website and search under their archives 
pertaining to a June 25 Book Review  --  I just had a better idea; I will Attach 
this recent article from the Washington Post, which exposes Bob Park as someone 
with the ethics of an "overzealous prosecutor" who is so certain of the 
righteousness of his own cause that he will knowingly withhold evidence (and 
thereby get innocent people wrongly convicted).

Park started denouncing Cold Fusion a decade ago, and his insistent demand at 
the time was for "nuclear ash" (i.e. helium_4, the end-result of _fusing_ two 
heavy-hydrogen nuclei [or deuterons]) in heavy-water electrolysis with a 
palladium cathode.  It has taken a decade for the evidence to be developed to 
the point where it is literally overwhelming, but now highly respectable 
scientists on 3 continents have found helium_4 in direct proportion to the 
"excess heat" measured, and Park KNOWS this because he has been visibly present 
at meetings where the work was presented in detail, but in his book and radio 
debates he tells his listeners not one word of the contrary evidence!  (I'm 
referring to the work of Miles in the USA, of McKubre in the USA, of Gozzi et al 
in Italy, and of Arata & Zhang in Japan.) It is just plain old-fashioned 
INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY for Park to pretend not to know that a mountain of 
evidence exists which contradicts his naive and ill-informed prejudices.

The day of reckoning for the American Physical Society's Establishment and their 
dogmatic-propagandist Bob Park is coming at the November meeting of the American 
Nuclear Society in Washington, D.C. which will have about 20 invited speakers at 
a Special Session on Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions and Cold Fusion that ANS 
members of Park's ilk have tried unsuccessfully to squelch; this session on 
LENR/CF was organized by U of Illinois (UIUC) professor George Miley, for 
decades a respected authority on Hot Fusion and editor of the important peer-
reviewed archival journal "Fusion Technology," one of the _few_ "respectable" 
journals that is sufficiently open-minded about real innovations that they will 
even consider publishing papers about Cold Fusion.

Sir Arthur C. Clarke (who published the concept of the geostationary ComSat in 
1945!) says that the suppression of CF by the APS is "... almost certainly the 
biggest scandal in the history of science."

One doesn't need deep or esoteric education to realize this.  Just order the new 
popular book "Excess Heat: Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed" by retired MIT-
educated electrical engineer Charles Beaudette who spent the past 6 years FULL 
TIME in getting to the bottom of this matter and documenting every salient point 
in definitive detail.  The subtitle of Beaudette's book is: "An investigative 
report prepared for the general reader to explain how the most extraordinary 
claim made in the basic sciences during the twentieth century was mistakenly 
dismissed through errors of scientific protocol."

To realize how Park knowingly suppresses evidence, just check out the 
information available at www.infinite-energy.com  and www.padrak.com/ine  and on September 
1 get the Vol. 8, issue 1/2 [double-issue] of "Accountability in Research," 
edited by U of Md scientist Dr. Adil Shamoo, to see about a dozen papers by 
scientists of impeccable credentials that collectively expose Park's knowing 
falsehoods and deliberately deceptive disinformation about Cold Fusion.

Admittedly, some of Park's targets probably cannot survive objective scrutiny, 
but Park's substitution of sneer-review for serious peer-review is the 
antithesis of objectivity, and the genuinely mistaken ideas he reports merely 
serve to provide "guilt by association" for worthwhile research that academic 
vested interests at the APS hopes the public never learns about, lest the 
magnitude of their selfish disregard of the public interest, and ignoble 
rejection of truth which threatens the over-privileged positions of those 
currently in power, should reveal both the wretchedly poor judgment and Crimes 
Against Humanity of the current APS Hot Fusion Mafia & APS High-Energy 
Priesthood.  The late, very great theoretical physicist, Nobel Laureate Julian 
Schwinger RESIGNED in disgust from the APS when they incompetently rejected his 
pro-CF papers!  Also Nobel Laureate Willis Lamb (discover of the celebrated Lamb 
shift) has published 3 pro-CF papers [in Proc. NAS which _cannot_ reject papers 
by Members!]. Two other Nobel Laureate physicists have publicly declined to 
endorse the negative conclusions of the DoE's biased ("Kangaroo Court") ERAB 
Report of 1989. Why should the public listen to an undistinguished, mediocre PR 
flack, whose principal talent is as a wannabe stand-up comic, when FOUR Nobel 
Laureate physicists have publicly taken positions contrary to Park's 
naive/uninformed prejudices?

Mr. Hill, if I send hard-copies to you c/o P.O. Box 1377, MD 21278-0001 will you 
personally get them?  I don't want to waste my energy sending anything to some 
anonymous black hole.

Sincerely,

Bob Bass

P.S. compare my resume, appended, with Bob Park's resume!

Email from James T. Lo to Bob Bass, August 22, 2000.

From: James T. Lo [mailto:intellisyst@home.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 12:54 PM
To: 'Bob Bass'; Bass, Robert W (IDS)
Subject: Re: Park's VoodooSci & attacks on reviewer Platt

Bob,

There is a front page article on R. L. Park and his book "Voodoo Science" in 
today's Baltimore Sun. You may want to write a rebuttal for the "Letters To The 
Editor" or a letter to the article author, Michael Hill, Sun Staff.

Park is here in Maryland. It may be a good idea to have a face-to-face meeting 
with him and see if you can win him over. Obviously, it is not going to be easy 
after his position has been published in the book.

Regards,

Jim

Email from Bob Bass to bwletters at the Washington Post, July 29, 2000.

From: Bass, Robert W (IDS) 
To: 'bwletters@washpost.com' 
Cc: 'Charles Platt' 
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 2:30 AM
Subject: Park's VoodooSci & attacks on reviewer Platt

_NOT_ FOR PUBLICATION

Letters Editor: _please_ forward intact (with all 3 attachments) to:

Book Review Editor,
Washington Post BookWorld

You are to be commended for printing Charles Platt's review of Robert L. Park's 
tendentious "Voodoo Science," in which Mr. Platt hit the nail on the head 
perfectly.  [BW, June 25, 2000.]


Also it was commendable of you to permit Mr. Platt to reply after several of 
Park's defenders complained.

There is a way in which, with total honesty and fairness to _everyone_, you can 
allow BookWorld's readers to see with their own eyes the truth about all of 
this.         Appended is an ad for a new, non-polemical, very SOBER book by 
Charles Beaudette, who, though he is an MIT graduate in electrical engineering, 
has written in such a way that the general reader can follow with no difficulty 
99.99% of his new popular book "Excess Heat: How Cold Fusion Research Prevailed: 
an investigative report prepared for the general reader to explain how the most 
extraordinary claim made in the basic sciences during the twentieth century was 
mistakenly dismissed through errors of scientific protocol." Beaudette, retired, 
accidentally attended ICCF-5 in 1995 and says that he sat next to me, which I 
don't recall; at any rate, he became so intrigued that he spent the next 6 years 
FULL TIME investigating this matter in exhaustive depth and documenting 
everything totally.

Sir Arthur C. Clarke, who published the concept of the Geostationary 
Communications Satellite in 1945, and who wrote the Foreword, says flatly that 
the rejection of cold fusion by the Establishment is "... almost certainly the 
biggest scandal in the history of science."

Therefore the influential people hereabouts are entitled to know the truth about 
this matter.

So _INVITE_ U of Md. Prof. of Physics & APS spokesman Dr. R.L.Park to write a 
Review for BookWorld of this book about the "voodoo science" which he hates the 
most, and tell him that you require the length such that it can be printed in 
exactly one-half page [or 1 page] because you intend to place in an adjacent, 
parallel space of exactly the same size and prominence another review written by 
an equally prominent scientist [I may be able to recruit a Nobel Laureate in 
physics  --  there are 4 Nobel Laureates in physics who dissented from the ERAB 
Report of Nov. 1989 which Park says settled the matter].

Is this not fair?  You have not set up a "perjury trap" as they did for Clinton, 
because you will have WARNED Park what is going on!

However, based on my past dealings with Park, I'll bet you a month's salary that 
either (a) he declines, or (b) he doesn't read the book, but leafs through it 
looking for sentences which he can seize upon and present OUT OF CONTEXT so as 
to _prevent_ BookWorld readers from wanting to read the book.  But when his 
superficial and self-evidently dishonest "review" appears next to a sober 
review, readers will be able to decide for themselves who to believe and who has 
an anti-humanitarian agenda.

I am somewhat involved in this matter because one of the letters that you 
published from a Park supporter implicitly slandered me since you published a 
letter by John F. Walker that says about Platt: "His articles in Wired include a 
glowing description of a miraculous solution for the world's nuclear waste 
problem."

This is DOUBLY deceptive:

(1) the sentences from a News Release by me re a Radwaste Remediation (RR) 
discovery of my patent-law clients that Platt quoted in Wired ["ANEUTRONIC, 
SAFE, CHEAP, BULK-PROCESS MODERN ALCHEMY!"] was an example of something which 
Platt himself found so "way out" that he expected before he went to ICCF-7 to 
see for himself that it would turn out to be crazy nonsense, and he never 
retracted this explicitly, though I was happy with his article because by the 
time one got to the end of it one could have deduced that it was quite possible 
that Low Energy Nuclear Transmutations (LENT) [as in my clients' table-top LENT-
1 reactor which transmutes 0.1 gram of radioactive Thorium to harmless metals 
like Titanium and Copper in 30 minutes using 60-cycle wall-current to a 1 kW 
power supply] provided a genuinely real and truly revolutionary discovery;

(2) the letter you printed ASSUMES that LENT is so preposterous that it 
discredits Platt to merely mention that he had investigated it, when the FACT is 
that an award-winning Italian nuclear physicist, Dr. Francesco Celani, at the 
top nuclear physics lab in Italy (on the via Enrico Fermi at Frascati near 
Rome), together with colleagues, presented a paper at ICCF-7 recounting how they 
had tested the LENT-1 reactor and _validated_ its seemingly miraculous 
achievements, and the only reason that your Park-supporting letter-writer can  
get away with bamboozling your readers is because the people at the US DoE have 
colluded with the likes of Park to commit a Crime Against Humanity in preventing 
the taxpaying public from learning about this breakthrough discovery which could 
end the national agony over what to do with the nation's radioactive waste!

Give a crook enough rope and he will hang himself!  Based upon my own dealings 
with Park, the man is a dangerous & destructive menace to society who will (like 
the "overzealous prosecutor who suppresses evidence" that Platt justly compared 
him to) knowlingly lie, cheat & steal in order to prevent the public from 
finding out the truth about cold fusion.  I offered Park a FREE copy of the 
wonderful new book "Nuclear Transmutation: The Reality of Cold Fusion," by 
Tadahiko Mizuno, if Park would promise to review it in his influential email 
newsletter "What's New."  He was polite to me until he got the book. Then he 
seized a few sentences out of context which totally reversed the actual message 
of respectable Japanese nuclear engineer Dr. Mizuno, and triumphantly posted 
them on the internet!  When I complained and asked for space for a rebuttal, 
Park broke off answering my letters.  This is the ethics of a propagandist, not 
a scientist.

Park is ruthless and has gotten two New Energy Conferences kicked out of 
government auditoriums after both the State Dept. and, later, the Dept. of 
Commerce had scheduled the conferences in their auditoriums and people were 
planning to attend; moreover, he has gotten the two Patent & Trademark Office 
patent examiners, who were involved in trying to give "new energy" inventors 
fair treatment & in organizing the conferences, unjustly _fired_ from their 
jobs! Park is so misguided that he has become in effect truly an evil force 
posing as a protector of society.  If you doubt my characterization of him, just 
make him the offer I suggested and let your readers learn for themselves!

Sincerely,

Dr. Robert W. Bass

Registered Patent Agent 29,130
Prof. of Physics & Astronomy, BYU (1971-81)
inventor, 3 issued USA Patents on "optimal" controlled thermonuclear fusion 
configuations ['hot' fusion]
Member, Theoretical Division, Project Matterhorn
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, 1957-59
Rhodes Scholar (Md./D.C. & Wadham, 1950-52)
named Outstanding Young Scientist of 1960 by Maryland
Academy of Sciences
named Fusion Scientist of Year (1994) by Fusion Info Center
honored by two-hour session of 6 papers at national ACC
[formerly JACC of 7 engineering societies]
in Philadelphia (June, 1998)
Invited Paper on LENT at Nov. meeting of American
Nuclear Society, Wash. D.C., Nov. 2000
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