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What If Cold Fusion Is Real? - Wired Magazine Article, Nov. 1998

by Charles Platt, Wired Magazine

The full text of the really great review on Cold Fusion from the Wired Magazine Article, Nov. 1998, is now at:

www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/coldfusion.html

The website article is 11 pages long, for easy printing (hint!).

"It is one of the very best general media accounts of cold fusion to date. Charles Platt is to be congratulated for his excellent treatment." - Eugene Mallove.

Here below are the old Oct. 1998 email posts about this article, FYI:

Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:15:57 -0800
To: pgb@padrak.com (BCC: Energy_Send_,List)
Subject: FWD: Wired Magazine CF Article: GET IT!

Subject: Wired Magazine 11/98: Cold Fusion Article
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 98 22:56:16 -0000
From: "E.F. Mallove" 
To: [snip]

Fellow journalists and scientists --

The cold fusion article in Wired Magazine by Charles Platt has just come 
out in the November issue. Magazines with the article should begin to 
appear on newsstands in the next few days as the old issue (October) is 
replaced. Today we were sent a fax of the article, "Dirty Science: The 
Strange Rebirth of Cold Fusion," by the Wired reprint service. The 
feature article spans 18 pages. It is one of the very best general media 
accounts of cold fusion to date. Charles Platt is to be congratulated for 
his excellent treatment.

Get it, read it, think about it. I will not spoil your reading of it by 
telling you much about it -- except to say that it is brutally frank and 
that it will open many eyes.

Best wishes,

Gene

Dr. Eugene F. Mallove, Editor-in-Chief
Infinite Energy Magazine
Cold Fusion Technology, Inc.
P.O. Box 2816
Concord, NH 03302-2816

Ph: 603-228-4516
Fax: 603-224-5975

editor@infinite-energy.com
http://www.infinite-energy.com



Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:16:22 -0800
To: pgb@padrak.com (BCC: Energy_Send_,List)
From: pgb@padrak.com (Patrick Bailey)
Subject: FWD: More on the Wired CF Article: PRESS RELEASE 

Subject: Press Release on Wired CF Article
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 98 10:57:52 -0000
From: "E.F. Mallove" 
To: [snip]

* * * PRESS RELEASE * * *

Wired Magazine's Expose'
of the Cold Fusion Scandal

FROM:

Infinite Energy Magazine
Cold Fusion Technology, Inc.
PO Box 2816 Concord, NH 03302-2816
Phone: 603-228-4516
Fax: 603-224-5975
http://www.infinite-energy.com

and New Energy Research Laboratory (NERL) Bow Technologies Center
Bow, New Hampshire

October 23, 1998

Concord, NH - Wired Magazine, the high-tech journal of the digital age, 
takes a giant leap forward for truth in science journalism with its 
latest issue. Charles Platt's 18-page expose' article in the November 
1998 Wired, "Dirty Science: The Strange Rebirth of Cold Fusion" makes it 
abundantly clear that the world very likely is facing an energy and 
scientific revolution of unprecedented scale. Infinite Energy magazine 
initiated Platt's interest in the subject, as he recounts. 

Platt also identifies one of the key problems for cold fusion, which is 
not the lack of results or significant publication, but the refusal of 
key opinion-molding science journals to publish scientific papers with 
rock-solid findings that are at odds with supposedly bullet-proof 
theories of modern physics and chemistry.

Platt faults science journalist Gary Taubes, who assaulted the 
reputations of scientists at Texas A&M University in 1990, and later in 
his negative book, with what quickly proved to be totally false 
allegations of fraud. Platt discusses the work of scientists at Los 
Alamos National Laboratory and elsewhere that refute the allegations. 
When asked, Platt told Infinite Energy magazine that Taubes refused to 
allow his comments to Platt to be published.

Infinite Energy Magazine is proud to have contributed to the one of the 
best single journalistic accounts on the cold fusion scandal since the 
famous Fleischmann and Pons press conference at the University of Utah on 
March 23, 1989. Infinite Energy's Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Eugene Mallove 
encouraged author Charles Platt to explore cold fusion and draw his own 
conclusions, and he did. Platt writes: "At most, the story of cold fusion 
represents a colossal conspiracy of denial. At least, it is one of the 
strangest untold stories in 20th -century science." Of course, Infinite 
Energy magazine agrees with the first possibility, but readers of Platt's 
seminal investigative report can decide for themselves. 

To investigate the cold fusion scandal, Platt traveled to cold fusion 
companies and interviewed some of the hundreds of scientists who work in 
this field as heroes unsung by the general media, such as The New York 
Times - which continues to act as though cold fusion science and 
technology do not exist. Platt attended the Seventh International 
Conference on Cold Fusion in Vancouver, British Columbia in April 1998 to 
see for himself whether cold fusion evidence is real, or whether hundreds 
of scientists are engaged in mass-delusion. It is unfortunate that other 
science journalists did not attend ICCF7, preferring as they do to follow 
the path of least resistance, which is to say - to do nothing. Perhaps 
after reading the expose' by Charles Platt, they will have second 
thoughts. But don't hold your breath!

*** END ***



Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 11:40:35 -0800
To: pgb@padrak.com (BCC: All_Send_Lists)
From: pgb@padrak.com (Patrick Bailey)
Subject: Wired Article to be on the web: What If Cold Fusion Is Real?
Wired Magazine - Issue 6.11, Number 25

"What If Cold Fusion Is Real?" [Major Long Article!] 

"It was dismissed as scientific schlock, maybe fraud, nearly a decade ago 
and journals refuse to print a single word on it. So why is cold fusion 
still being researched in labs around the world?"
By Charles Platt

Read the rest on newsstands now - complete content available online 
November 27, 1998.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/

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