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A peer reviewed article appears.
If I lose my job I am Fired. There is a need among those that do the firing to obscure what they do. Those who have been fired were told that they were Layed Off. Then it was renamed to Downsizing, disassociating the action from the victim. Very clever, and giving the Firee some time to operate under a cloak of confusion. This became too well understood. So then it was called Work Force Reduction. Now, by all the cutting edge departments of human resources[sic], it is called ---bleh, something else that skips my mind, but still very clever. Did I get all this right, or leave any out?
Hookers have their tag changed every few score years or so, apparently after each resurgent attack, replacing the previous euphemism with the next.
In no particular sequence: Paramor, Whore, Lady of the night... I'm sure you could all add to the long historical list. That's the best I could come up with at the spur of the moment without an internet search.
The witch hunters among us seem to obtain a special thrill in hunting them down. (Why?) In general, by those that are "hunted" I mean any category of folks who feel the need to change their categorical tag to avoid torches and pitchforks.
In particular, I refer to the locked Cold Fusion Thread on PF forum.
The Whores of Cold Fusion have renamed themselves. They now experiment with "LENR" (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions). They hide behind 4 letters and are easily spooked and driven into hiding.
I think the Torches and Pitchforks on PF need better supervision, seemingly as happy, given the opportunity, to kill off honest inquiry as dishonest, only motivated to make the next kill or castrate the next student that walks through the PF doors with misconceptions.
Comments, corrections, or attacks?
Evaluations, ideas and proposal upon new energy sources
by Prof. Christos Stremmenos*
BACKGROUND
The hostile attitude which cold fusion has been confronted with since 1989, but even long before, shown also by the bibliography related to the scientific papers of Focardi and Rossi, eventually led to general disinterest and oblivion of this subject. After several years of apparent inaction, the [...]
by Prof. Christos Stremmenos*
BACKGROUND
The hostile attitude which cold fusion has been confronted with since 1989, but even long before, shown also by the bibliography related to the scientific papers of Focardi and Rossi, eventually led to general disinterest and oblivion of this subject. After several years of apparent inaction, the [...]
If I lose my job I am Fired. There is a need among those that do the firing to obscure what they do. Those who have been fired were told that they were Layed Off. Then it was renamed to Downsizing, disassociating the action from the victim. Very clever, and giving the Firee some time to operate under a cloak of confusion. This became too well understood. So then it was called Work Force Reduction. Now, by all the cutting edge departments of human resources[sic], it is called ---bleh, something else that skips my mind, but still very clever. Did I get all this right, or leave any out?
Hookers have their tag changed every few score years or so, apparently after each resurgent attack, replacing the previous euphemism with the next.
In no particular sequence: Paramor, Whore, Lady of the night... I'm sure you could all add to the long historical list. That's the best I could come up with at the spur of the moment without an internet search.
The witch hunters among us seem to obtain a special thrill in hunting them down. (Why?) In general, by those that are "hunted" I mean any category of folks who feel the need to change their categorical tag to avoid torches and pitchforks.
In particular, I refer to the locked Cold Fusion Thread on PF forum.
The Whores of Cold Fusion have renamed themselves. They now experiment with "LENR" (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions). They hide behind 4 letters and are easily spooked and driven into hiding.
I think the Torches and Pitchforks on PF need better supervision, seemingly as happy, given the opportunity, to kill off honest inquiry as dishonest, only motivated to make the next kill or castrate the next student that walks through the PF doors with misconceptions.
Comments, corrections, or attacks?
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