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George Heaton in 1944

George Heaton in 1944
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Sunday, October 30, 2011

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Yesterday I received a link to a thread I'd started at http://physicsforums.com in the "Skepticism & Debunking" section.  Posting there was like diving into a shark tank and then cutting your finger.  I tried to be vaguely civil with my responses to the attacks, until I could see that it wasn't helping.  As usual, the omniscience of the kneejerk skeptic stands above common standards of decency, critical listening, looking at something before judging it on its own merits, etc.  When someone suggested that I was interested in perpetual motion and suggested that the thread be closed, I let him have it, which just gave him the excuse he wanted to whine to the moderator about an outsider having something to say.  Later when I got an email link back to the forum and checked it, I was told that I had been banned from the whole forum forever for being a "crackpot".  I was going to complain but first I read the rules and lo! discussion about unpublished new technology is against the rules at http://physicsforums.com!  Also, anything that Anybody could construe as conspiracy theory is not allowed to be discussed.

Well bust my buttons, I thought forums were for talking about stuff!

And talk I had.  I don't have a copy of any of the drivel that the Discouragement Fraternity had posted on my thread and the whole thread was deleted.  All that's left of the conversation is the post that got me banned.  Here are excerpts:


"The Bob Neal compression unit was built and tested in this (the 21st) century, and the results were good. 

 "I have made every conceivably necessary noise to the effect that there is an energy source for this and I do not believe in denying or avoiding or going around any law or principle of science... If you woke up on the wrong side of your b.s. degree then sorry you were having a bad day, now please try to stay on topic as I have put a lot of effort into this and I don’t need to hear from people who aren’t interested in digging into my work to find its specific strengths and weaknesses.

"Generalities (especially framed as threats to have me banned from your omnipotent presence) are religious assertions based on meta-physical interpretations of laws and principles.  I don’t mind generalities when there has been some thought put into them so that they are applied correctly to the question at hand, but what you are doing here is trying to beat me at the altar of your omniscience...   

"By meta-physics, what I mean is that certain kneejerk skeptics Truly Believe that all they have to do is quote some Law of Physics (or even have one vaguely in mind) and once they are thus armed, they become the Fundamentalist Army of the SCIENCE IS PERFECTED religion, shouting slogans like “It’s all been done before,” and “If it would work you could just buy one at Wal-Mart.” In other words, your presumed education plus some law you imagine to apply to a theory you haven’t studied towers over empirical findings and new applications, canceling all, and elevating you to the status of Forum Gods..."


(The thread had been started to attract criticism of the constructive kind to material that is being posted at my new blog http://selffilling.blogspot.com.  Obviously I should have stayed out of the conversation as nothing was being said anyway and it could have died a natural death instead of my getting myself thrown out for disagreeing with consensus opinion.  Oddly enough, being threatened is my least favorite thing in the whole world!  Except for pig intestines cooked in pig blood and octupus cooked in octopus ink!)

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