Can non-experts recognise and challenge expert claptrap?
Is the Hot Clocking explanation for the ‘free energy’ excess heat that was said to have been produced in experiments in cold fusion a bad explanation because it explains the reason for something happening that probably never even happened in the first place?
To find out more click the Link to Professor Simon Berkovich’s article. In the comments section you’ll see me as a non-expert in the area of physics challenge Professor Berkovich (George Washington University) and the Nobel Laureate and Cambridge University Professor of Physics Brian D. Josephson. How can I do this?
http://www.bestthinking.com/articles/energy/new-physics-of-hot-clocking-energy-for-the-excess-heat-attributed-to-cold-fusion-
Follow the debate as it unfolds further. So far, at the time of writing, Josephson has weirdly declined to take up the Dysology wager -will Berkovich also decline to put his reputation where his brain is?
Supermyths are myths about myths that are created and compounded by experts, spread by pseudo-skeptics and destroyed by evidence. Braced myths are a sub-type of supermyth, created by orthodox expert authorities that are so powerful they are believed to be true by respected scholars who unwittingly promote them as examples of the need to be healthily sceptical of counterknowledge and then, with unintended irony, use them as argument winners to refute other fallacious knowledge.
