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Jed, in a response to Frank Close says:

"How so?  What other work? Tell us exactly what McKubre, Kunimatsu, Srinvasan,
Storms, Mills, and Thermacore have done wrong."

McKubre looks pretty good.  Kunimatsu I do not recognize.  Srinvasan I have 
already critiqued here.  Storms published on 1/2 of a good run.  I would have
been more conservative.  Mills I did extensive work duplicating, and found 
problems which have not yet been resolved.  Thermacore has not to my knowledge
published, so I have no way of evaluating their work.  

So my personal assessment is that the field (based mainly on McKubre's work)
is provocative, but not convincing.  

Later Jed says:

"Let me make your assignment crystal clear: prove the heat is an experimental
error."

That is not the way science works, Jed.  Experiments are published with enough
detail for replication.  Belief results when enough separate replications are 
made so that workers in the field generally agree on the result.  One problem
for me is that I have observed that McKubre leaves importent parts of the 
recipe out of the published papers.  So I can not be sure that my work is 
really a replication.  So that reduces the weight of the McKubre result.  

Tom Droege