The War on Terrorism versus The Free and Open Exchange of Scientific and Technical Information Michael J. Hopmeier Chief, Innovative and Unconventional.
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The War on Terrorismversus
The Free and Open Exchange of Scientific and Technical
Information
Michael J. HopmeierChief,
Innovative and Unconventional Concepts
Unconventional Concepts, Inc.426 E. Hollywood Blvd, Suite AMary Esther, FL 32569(850) 243-4411, Fax (850) [email protected]
Turning Point in Science Publication On September 19, 1918, a 21-year-old Army
private reported to the Camp Jackson, S.C., base hospital feeling ill.
Within a week he was one of 21 million fatalities attributed to the influenza pandemic of 1918.
On March 21, 1997, almost exactly 80 years later, a team from AFIP published details of the disease genetic code in the journal Science and rekindled a debate on the freedom of scientific and technical information.
In March 1989, 8 years before the AFIP article, Fleishman and Ponds of the University of Utah published their findings on cold fusion.
Their results were immediately applauded, and derided, by numerous respected, and not so respected, researchers worldwide.
In November 1989, the Energy Research Advisory Board of the DOE was convened to review the issue.
They found that “…experimental results of excess heat from calorimetric cells reported to date do not present convincing evidence that useful sources of energy will result from phenomena attributed to cold fusion.”
Accumulated and established knowledge, which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws; knowledge classified and made available in work, life, or the search for truth; comprehensive, profound or philosophical knowledge
The Energy Research and Advisory Board was not convened to evaluate cold fusion, but instead to consider whether to alter funding profiles to support cold fusion research!
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