I didn't say it was my research. Oliver doesn't know how to read, he sees what he wants to see, knee-jerk.There are several hundred scientists working on this, and current funding may be in the range of $50 million per year. (Or it could be more, much of the work is secret, because of obvious commercial implications.) My work is to support the research through documenting the science, including journalism.

Yes. There is a reason why the U.S. was spending half of its discretionary research budget on cold fusion for many months in 1989-1990. Notice the caveat: if it can be made to work reliabily. Most people working in the field think it is possible, but still difficult.

Tobias is Oliver D. Smith, and the complete mail is at January 25, 2018.

This section was a response to his claim about his brother:

What little I do know is that he is linked to ‘skeptic’ organisations, supposedly is either paid or works with other people. I do not see any ‘real world’ harm by what he does though, if he’s just refuting or criticising spiritualists or ghost-believers where is the harm?

I did not accuse him of owning "a bunch of accounts:" there. I suspected that accounts on Wikiversity were owned by one of the Anglo Pyramidologist socks, which, from Wikipedia discussions, were likely two brothers. Later I concluded that it was his brother, not him. But "Smith" gets used and "Anglo Pyramidologist" gets used, and then he complained to the WMF. About what is unclear, but probably what he is claiming here, that he had been falsely accused. "False accusations." But there were hundreds of accounts listed, and if any were "false" it would be Wikipedia error. But somebody was behind those socks.

Subreddit mods cannot see IPs. Reddit admins can, I assume. But Reddit allows throwaway accounts. Further problem: Mike and Darryl might use the same mobile IP provider.

Of course he isn't. John66 is Bongolian, right?

Seriously, Oliver had revealed a great deal and then claimed it was all lies. Why? To protect his brother. He actually made it clear that he would lie to protect his brother. So, it's simple. He's lying.

Could John66 be independent? Well, from all that I've seen, it's not impossible, but then again, I don't believe in "impossible." It's very unlikely.

Darryl Smith, and specifically as Debunking spiritiualism -> Skeptic from Britain -> John66.

Oliver admitted to Michaeldsuarez on Dramatica that his brother was Skeptic from Britain. It was in a private conversation, but when Oliver proceeded to accuse me of being Skeptic from Britain, MDS was outraged and published it.

I ran Wikiversity as a sysop for much of that time. I was very active with controversial issues. As an example, I was blocked several times by a rogue sysop. I went to meta and whacked him.

That 'crat had been inactive, and suddenly showed up, saying he had received private complaints, and started wielding a meat-axe, violating policies right and left. I was busy rescuing deleted content (years of work), some pages were very large and exports failed, etc. I would have been unblocked, but I was in no rush, and the WMF unexpectedly banned me before that process could be run. They fooled that 'crat, and they often fool admins who aren't paying attention.

He's lying, because he published the mail he got from the WMF, acknowledging that they had acted on his complaint. He really is lying, in the face of clear evidence.

Entirely his brother. Mikemikev played almost no role. The Mike socks he listed, very many of them are his brother. But some were his accounts. He's been very careless.

I think he took Mike's list of Smith socks -- which covered both brothers, looked at the ones that were not him, and assumed they were Mike. Which is how obvious Darryl socks end up on that list. Very few of the accounts he listed appear to have actually been MIke.

It is unclear how his own accounts ended up in the list.

I started writing about Oliver in 2018. I started collecting data on the Anglo Pyramidologist sock family in 2017. "Anglo Pyramidologst" was Oliver's Wikipedia account, but is also the name under which sock investigations of the two brothers are archived. When I write about AP socks, it is about either brother. But the original problems were all Darryl. Oliver showed up with about one edit, not a big problem. But .... he also filed a complaint with the WMF. What about? I don't know. He may have lied.

Nope. The claim that I believe most Rats are Smiths is one more deception. There are a lot of accounts, to be sure, but I've not counted all of them. If Oliver was not lying when he said that most accounts were his brother, and if the impersonation and troll socking is his brother, Oliver doesn't have all that many accounts. It might be thirty or forty, and usually only one was active at a time.

If he is telling the truth -- he might be -- it is because it's his brother. Years ago, before I was involved, he was warned that he could be responsible for his brother's activity, if he tolerates it.

Not really. He picked a blog post on pseudoscience, that has a very rare mention of the Smiths in posts. It's because of troll (and impersonation) socking there on Kendrick's blog (and Kendrick is under attack by Darryl).

It's actually quite a mess. But little by little.

Primarily, I'm 75 this month. Actually doing pretty well. Sure, I have prostate cancer, but if you do an autopsy, most men my age have it. So far, so good, actually, I'm very unlikely to die from prostate cancer. No symptoms.

Indeed. Infusion Institute pays the bills, and that's publicly supported. But because I'm not taking a salary, I get some perks, and this affair is peripherally related. They attacked cold fusion on Wikiversity. But very very blog posts are about the Smith fiasco. It is pages which are organized, as much as they are, hierarchically and are not as visible as blog posts. Oliver almost never links correctly to what he's talking about.

I agree. I need to finish this business.

Contributions This is very clearly Oliver or an extremely sophisticated impersonation, like I have never seen. Oliver is lying or truly deluded, does not remember what he has done. Who would take the trouble to run such a thoroughly sophisticated impersonation? And for what purpose?

I can think of one. To troll Oliver. This account did not add any opprobrium to Oliver that was not already there. I have additional evidence to look at that may reveal more, eventually.

This is something I have noticed about the alleged impersonations that attack others. The real Oliver never shows up to defend them. He has claimed that the impersonation socks that attacked me on Wikiversity were actually Mikemikev. Yet not only did he not defend me, he was a complainant to the WMF. Why?

He is responsible for what he does not do, as well as for what he does.

Whereas, of course, Oliver is the very soul of cool guy, right about everything,. Oliver has never understood that someone else being Very Bad does him no good at all. Focusing on it takes him down and keeps him down.;

You will not go far if you don't deepen, MIke. You've got a great song here, if you make it scan and set it to music. But if you believe it, you are in trouble. First problem, you think there is something wrong with sheep. You have your own knee-jerk assumptions and don't see your own blindness, and you have not developed the tools to allow you to function beyond that, or else you'd be too busy to bother with this web shite and Oily-ver Smith.

Great comment, Dr. Ox. 10 points.

This is utterly useless, it accomplishes nothing. This is the behavior of the weak and powerless. You want to help, contact Emil Kirkegaard and see if he needs anything. Contact Noah Carl, etc., Make yourself actually useful.

Oliver generally claims innocence when he was involved up to his eyeballs. He tossed mud and made it look real, and started a rock rolling down a hill, which led to an avalanche. Did he cause the avalanche. There is a forest fire, but he didn't light it, he merely lit a small fire to cook his lunch. Honest, it wasn't me!!! But he is not honest.

Let's say the evidence contradicts this.

He wasn't talking to you, stoopy-head. The biggest mistake you make with Mike is not stepping aside and letting the community deal with him. Instead you are compelled, and if fucks up your head.

I think this may be an ordinary day for Mike. Look, he's been shut up and shut out of RatWiki for years, so of course he's going to dump. It's not worse than what many have written here, it is just obviously much more politically incorrect, and he has no idea of how to actually communicate with this community, except through insults. It might take him some time to figure it out, changes like that don't happen overnight.

Okay, what Mike would answer. That an individual is smart and successful does not mean that the <group> they came from is relatively capable compared to another group. Or if he is a true and complete racist, he will say "He was made a judge just to make it look like Aborigines are equals."

Much of the argument in this issue -- on both sides -- is actually beside the point. What if group X is less intelligent on average? What difference does that make? Society is learning to treat people, all people, as individuals, not as members of a group.

There are, in fact, cultural differences that can be important. I was writing about this more than a decade ago, when racialism was much more accepted, when it was widely believed that "they" were different in important ways from "us."

Mike and Oliver have been having this argument since 2012, repeated over and over. Really, a page could be created with lists of arguments on the sides, and then they could save a great deal of time: Oliver: 3. Mike: No, you idiot, 17. Oliver, 13. Mike: 17. Oliver: You just said that! MIke: 12. Sysop: Okay, guys, enough for the day, 20 hour block.

Mikemikev is smart, but too big for his britches. He is quite accustomed to dealing with shallow thinkers and is simply assuming you are one, and gets some kind of joy out of insulting you.

What would be useful could be to allow him to present his arguments within the bounds of civility, as in academia. It can be done, but it's some work. If it were up to me, I'd negotiate with him, and allow him an account if he would agree to behavioral restrictions. Then realize that he has years of habit and might violate them. But humans can be trained, it merely takes patience. At least most can. I have no idea if he would accept, but my guess is, from what little I know of him, including in person, if he made a commitment he would keep it. The big mistake that many wikis make is to disrespect users, it creates trolls from those who might not otherwise turn into them. Respect works, and, remember, I was a prison chaplain.

He is not defining terms, he is carrying on a years-old argument as if it was all obvious, when it's not. Stick with rude, I suggest, Dysk.I rather doubt that he has ever been confronted by someone truly knowledgetart by being authentic and detached. I think you are good at that.

He is right about that. The reality is complicated. Academic freedom is important, and it gets lost in the political shuffle.

Yes. Actually Dysk, stick with that. You might get some traction.

Give yourself some time, Dysk. You may mellow some. Something does not become "pseudoscience" by being a minority point of view. Yeah, for the most part, biological race is an illusion, but race can still be scientifically studied as a social category, and some of the people attacked do that.

I keep saying that Dysklyver is brilliant. He is young. He claims to be a lawyer. which he has never explained, very unusual at his age. He might mean "paralegal."

Ah, authentic Mikemikev or at least a very good impersonation. Mike can correct me if I'm wrong. So far, he has never lied to me. This is his point of view, and he has a point, though I disagree with much of it. overall, strongly. He is not lying.

It would be preposterous to claim that Glamour Sickle was Oliver and there is no sign that MMV did it.

The real offense of Glamour Sickle, who might actually be what he claimed to be, was pointing out that Oliver Smith was ... well, what he is. I don't agree that this showed it was Mikemikev, there could have been many people who would have put that up. It could have been Emil Kirkegaard would be the first suspicion. it could have been me, except I'm not editing RatWikl, and I would not create a fake account pretending to be what I am not -- except I might pretend to not be me! But then I would certainly not use such an account for what this user used it for.

He gets emails from idiots. Meaningless. But wait, he was going to stop commenting here.

He would assume that from Oliver's use of RatWiki. It has nothing at all to do with impersonations. Oliver has never shown anything credible that would matter, that would affect how somone like Welton would see hijm. And Oliver wrote the article on Welton, and left out the most interesting (for RatWiki) fact, that article that was actually more about RatWiki than about Oliver, even though it doxxed him. That made Oliver more notable than many of those he has created articles on. How long will he be uniquely protected?

How does it feel, Oliver? That is exactly what happens to others with the defamation you posted. But I have not seen any sock blamed on Oliver that could have been Mikemikev. Oliver is criticized for what Oliver clearly did, and here he is "blaming it all on Mikemikev," which, above, he denied doing.

Well, if an error actually matters, Oliver could comment on the blog. I have never refused his right to correct errors, which is very much unlike him. He was Skeptical who blocked me for being attacked, and who complained to David Gerard, more than once, to obtain sanctions. Fascist asshole.

this is routine for Oliver, he links to pages that work when he links them, but that are updated and meaningless later. He does it with my blog all the time.

Charming, isn't he?

The term is attack dog, a name for a disruptive account tolerated by a faction that finds it useful, but that can then back away if needed, if the dog goes too far.

82.132.246.17 Mikemikev, hi!

Oliver must have made comments like this hundreds of times. He held out for ten hours. He put up a DNFTT, template as he continued to feed one or two trolls. One shows up immediately..

Contributions

I wrote "agenda Oliver, but different, probably Darryl." There are only six contributions, so this is not strong. The agenda is very clearly Oliver. But I also see moderately clear signs it is not Oliver, Hence I suspect Darryl, but it could be someone else. Very unlikely to be Mikemikev, what would be the point of attacking his friend? Oliver's fuss is about not wanting to be called an "Anti racist skinhead." But he hasn't been, not by me, and an account name is not the person. It could be a joke, as Oliver often points out. Or reality, or sarcastic, or a deliberate combination, such as Schizophrenic, which was definitely Oliver, not any doubt about it.

Contributions I stand with this being "very likely Oliver." The account does not resemble Mikemikev at all. It shows clear signs of being Oliver, so if this was MMV, it was a very skillful impersonation, but to what end? I just reviewed the edits again, and this was definitely not Mikemikev, it makes no sense.'definitely Oliver, so I have removed the hedge.

I think that Dysklyver has called himself a Marxist Antifa, so this is meaningless, having nothing to do with what happened before. Antifa has not been uncommon on RatWiki.

Obvious to Oliver with his schizo superpowerz.

I "believe iin" just about nothing when Oliver is involved. He (and/or his brother) have created massive confusion over the years, lying and impersonating and disrupting, that little is certain. But Oliver is certainly a "Smith brother," and it appears there are at least three, but only two that have been suspected of being involved, from the early communications on Wikipedia. That is, there are Smith brothers. Oliver denies being many of the accounts, and acknowledged to me the existence of his brother and that most accounts were his brother. And then he went completely bonkers. Indeed, who does he think he's fooling?

I have no intention to fool anyone. If I make a mistake, it's a mistake and I will correct it. But I do not conclude that something is a mistake because a known and admitted liar (There is no brother, it was all me, lying about it.) -- try parsing that leaving Oliver as not a liar. Good luck. If you can do it, I worry about your sanity.)

Ah,but Oliver is obsessed with Mikemikev,has been for years.

Oliver admits he follows Mike obsessively. This is utterly beside the point. Anyone could create an account with that name, honestly or sarcastically. I look at the accounts's contributions far more than the name. A name may give hints.

And so Oliver cites an ED article he created as if it means something. He has absolutely no shame.

RaiderFan was blocked months later by Oliver's brother as Wyatt, in his deletion/blocking spree, (blamed on me, supposedly I hacked the account) citing a Wrongpedia page. I recovered it. On that page, Oliver wrote what was attributed above to MDS, and then he also claimed that RaiderFan was Merkel, who was also blocked by DS in that spree. The quote cited as by MDS was on User talk:Merkel, posted by ODS, but it looks like a signature of JuniusThaddeus, which is deceptive. Oliver is very incautious. However, did JuniusThaddeus write this? Yes. Here it is, at the bottom of this page. Oliver has taken it out of context. It does claim identity, but that identity would not be a cause for block, necessarily. It also says a great deal that Oliver would rather we not look at, and that could be why he and his brother only quoted their own quotations. MDS was responding to a claim that he was RaiderFan, he attributes to Oliver. Was MDS correct? And does it matter? The account was not an impersonation, and more than one person might follow the same games. At most it was trolling. There had been an attempted cooping of Merkel. It failed. So Darryl simply took an opportunity when there was massive confusion that he created to block. And nobody cleaned that up.

Raider Fan was not an impersonation of Oliver, this is obvious. The account was trolling him, by using an old account name. The Smiths have also done this, with me. Nobody would think that Raider Fan was Oliver, therefore it was not an impersonation.

that is a judgment, and he does not admit that, but he tried to get the articles deleted because he knew that a court might find them defamatory -- or he was willing to have truthful articles deleted just to satisfy Kirkegaard. And if that was his thinking, no wonder he failed. The Rats would want to keep truthful articles. So, was it truthful to claim that Kirkegaard was a "child rape apologist" or not? The evidence cited shows not, if one actually reads it without going ballistic from the first words, i.e,. reading them out of literal and temporal context.

That is, eventually he admitted creating the articles.

No such change has been shown. Oliver doesn't know my political views, as far as I know.

Oliver misses that he has blamed much on Mikemikev that was not him, starting with many socks of his brother. He is quoting the title of a page, intended as a brief summary, not as a literal "all." Oliver is not responsible for Mikemikev's antisemitic comments, for example.

The hard part is finding a neutral observer willing to waste time looking at Oliver's trash and reviews of it.

Unfortunately, Oliver's laughing is contempt, never good for heatlh.

He did not actually link to the edit. None of this would make sense to anyone else. In any case, I found it, and it was hilarious, actually, for ED. Here is Oliver's edit removing the change, but it was not a simple revert of Mikemikev's edit, and Oliver had been revert warring over pieces of Mikemikev's joke. I had trouble finding it because the description was not clear. The change by MMV had been made the day before and expanded with Oliver's address and photo. This was a classic and very obvious ED piece of buffonery.

respond where? Oliver is utterly incoherent.

If I want to create gibberish on my blog, the problem is? No, it's not gibberish, it is material that sets Oliver off.

In spite of many years of internet experience, Oliver has not learned that "trolling back" is a formula for convincing everyone you are an idiot. Oliver listed his accounts as being Mikemikev. There were many, Octo was merely emphasized and prominent. And he left that material in the article. What I got to was his RWW article, annotated here. This was on the face written to inform RatWiki users of the situation.

He does not link to that edit and it is difficult to find it.

Oliver does not link so that his claims can be easily checked. That's normal. Here is that edit.

thanks for the link, Every little bit helps. That is actually a quote from him. The only "lie" would be, perhaps, calling it a deception when it was, he claims, a joke. If Emil Kirkegaard posts a photo showing someone making a nazi salute, that's, per Oliver, proof that he is a neo-Nazi, even though it was obviously a joke, but if he posts something that accuses another of being a sock master, it's a joke and anyone who thinks he is serious is lying. Except I did not think he was serious. This was merely the most prominent of a series of sock claims, covered on a subpage. Oliver Smith has claimed impersonations and then one might think we would see them on the page he compiled. Instead, we see a list of his own socks, many of them. And his brothers' socks I haven't gotten to that. All pinned on Mikemikev with no evidence at all.

Comments on the above are found on the CFC page, Tobias.

Not all days. I will go over this list elsewhere and come back. I will categorize the accounts according to what is known about them. I have never compiled a complete list of AP accounts, nor of specific Oliver accounts.

That could be read as an overstatement. By restating it with only a little more emphasis, Oliver convinces that they are all being accused of being Smith socks. However, being careful about "significant" -- a few percent would be significant -- this is true or not far from the truth. That activity is focused in some narrow areas, so in those areas, the impact is large.

Do remember there are two brothers. I have used editing studies to identify Darryl socks, but have not yet used them to compare Oliver and Darryl. It's work, it takes time, but it yields very interesting data.

Yes, and it is very useful to compare that with clear independent evidence. Oliver is being sued, and as Aeschylus, he admitted to being the creator of many articles, and that then allows clear identification of those old accounts as Oliver. It was already obvious, by the way, so this merely confirmed what anyone could see by the duck test. So the ED editing, by MrStrong, clearly and unmistakeable Oliver, shows how Oliver lies in order to attack Mikemikev -- and to attempt to cover up his prior activities.

Any may not be. The impersonations of me were probably Darryl, not Oliver.

Oliver is truly insane; but his brother Darryl is vicious, and my general suspicion is that most of the impersonation socking is from Darryl, and that Oliver does not necessarily know that, so blames it on whatever target is handy. Of late, Mikemikev. But Oliver has also accused Mikemikev of being the owner of accounts that were clearly his, I'm documenting that now.

It is unlikely, but Oliver claimed at one point that there was no brother, it was all him, lying from the beginning, back on Wiikipedia. Then he sort-of retracted that, saying "you'll just have to figure it out." We did. Whichever way you sliced it, Oliver lies. (He then claims the lies were harmless.)

the page is misnamed, which creates a basis for Oliver to attack it. It should be "Smith brothers sockpuppets." That would cover both sets of accounts.

This has nothing to do with LENR. Long ago, Mill prposed hydrinos as an explanation for LENR. This would not explain helium production or other transmutationjs at all. If Mills work is real, good for him, but not LENR.

This report is of high interest, but is also not peer-reviewed, but published by a LENR enterprise.

In many cases, I have split out the papers. I'll add links in the annotations.

Again, a black and white comparison. First of all, the author is conflating pseudoscience with "pathological science," which is itself vague. Cold fusion is not pseudoscience, period, though some people may hold some pseudoscientific beliefs about it -- such as the idea that "it" is "impossible," without even having a definition of "it." Is it impossible that there is something not understood?

While agreement is not universal, there is only one "theoretical" basis that has broad consensus, because of conclusive experimental evidence. The heat in the FP experiment is caused by the conversion of deuterium to helium, mechanism unknown. That is a verifiable hypothesis, already extensively confirmed. Work is under way to confirm it yet again with increased precision. (I.e., the theoretical value for the heat will be 23.8 MeV per helium nucleus formed, regardless of mechanism, if there are no leakages.)

All reviews of the field by responsible agencies and authorities found that research should continue. There has never been a conclusive peer-reviewed review of the field that concluded it was all artifact, error, or worse., But the belief that it was "rejected" is widespread. How did that happen? That is a question for the sociologists of science to address. But a hint: it was not rejected through the methods of science, but of politics and appeal to knee-jerk reactions. In any field, the cost of this can be enormous.

"flawed" is an understatement. The reactor tested was made by Industrial Heat, and they found that they were getting major heat, according to the test method used by Levi et al, with no fuel, a dummy reactor. Levi et al ran no dummy experiment, and used a completely incorrect value for the emissivity of alumina. And, yes, other workers have followed that paper. Parkhomov is one.

JCMNS is included as a "credible, peer-reviewed source," but this is a specialist journal for the field. It is indeed peer-reviewed, but the quality may vary.

Or is this simply science expanding into previously unexplored territory? The rejection of cold fusion was an "information cascade," where respectable scientists said things they did not know as fact, and others followed their lead. Nearly everyone assumed that if fusion was taking place in the FP experiment, that it must be d-d fusion. After all, what else could it be? Why the example of MCF did not suggest that maybe there was something not understood about the conditions is beyond me. There is a recent shift in understanding that could explain why it was so difficult to replicate the work. It was believed that there were two phases of palladium deuteride, but in 1993, two more were discovered. Those phases normally form only at very high pressure, but might form in small quantities, "adventitiously" at STP. If those are necessary for the reaction, it only happened more or less accidentally. But we don't know yet.

So, if something is difficult to understand, therefore it doesn't exist and we should give up studying it? What kind of science is this? My physics professor had words for this: cargo cult science. And yes, that was my professor.

Well, where was the review paper that showed that? It never happened, whereas many peer-reviewed reviews in mainstream journals have, of late, been assuming the reality of the effects. So the "general opinion" is simply ignorant.

Results have indeed improved, that's measurable. But it is a very difficult field, still.

Satellite solar power is independent of such conditions. But short of that, I expect that a sustainable energy economy could store solar energy as released hydrogen to be re-combined with oxygen on demand.

The hybrid fusion/fission design uses the less dangerous U-238, so it should be much safer than standard fission reactors. Most research approaches are as described, very little radiation is measured and while some transmutations do seem to occur, there appears to be some suppression of radioactive products. There is a great deal that is not well-known and understood.

How much is needed is unclear. Again, until we have reliable devices, what the workers in the field call a "lab rat," it's difficult to predict costs.

The original work was with palladium deuteride, which is quite an expensive material. Using nickel hydride, far less expensive, is controversial, and much of the fuss about it was based on the fraudulent claims of Andrea Rossi, which fooled many who ought to have known better.

Likely not. But, gain, the devil is in the details, that we don't have yet. As one example, a present commercial effort is to create a hybrid fusion/fission reactor for space applications that uses a cold fusion cell to generate neutrons (yes, some of them do that under some conditions!) which are then used to fission U-238. Which would produce radioactive products....

This is almost a tautology, but overlooks a problem. Yes, a small system, with decent energy density, can be scaled up by multiplying it up. However, what's the reliability? If a cell generates heat for a day and then stops, commercial application could be problematic, it would depends on many variables.

So far, such claims have been fraudulent. Some legitimate claims are approaching commercial levels, but nothing that I could say will be immediately practical.

Well, it could be. We do not know how to control the reaction adequately for commercial application, so we don't yet know exactly what will be required.

Well, some radiation is observed, but the levels are very low, and nobody has yet correlated radiation with the measured heat. The two correlated effects are heat and de novo helium.

In other words, it requires the solid state. (It is probably not possible in liquids and I doubt in gases, either. Rather the effect is seen in metal hydrides/deuterides.

The thinking is still hot fusion thinking. The mechanism for FP "cold fusion" is unknown, but most thinking has it be what I've called "molecular fusion," not between raw nuclei, but atoms, the electrons being necessary, and then some theories have a Bose-Einstein condensate form that can fuse through tunneling from the collapsed state, and that has actually been calculated to be possible by Takahashi. But there are many problems still be to resolved, much that is not understood.

That was an early error. That fusion normally takes place under such conditions is not evidence that such conditions are required, and there is a very obvious counterexample, fully accepted, muon-catalyzed fusion, which is experimentally created close to absolute zero. That is, a catalyst or catalytic condition can bypass the Coulomb barrier. However, what FP found was not MCF,

If an idea is testable, it is not pseudoscientific. The belief that something is impossible is not testable, so there would be the true pseudoscience. There is science here, in abundance. But ordinary reliability is elusive. Nevertheless, science can handle unreliability through correlation.

As many as hundreds, including experts retained to investigate. The effect was difficult to set up, and so there were many replication failures, as well. It is still difficult, but there is conclusive evidence, actually has been since 1991. The effect is nuclear in nature. It is probably not "d-d fusion."

This goes to show how an eppeal to emotion can completely demolish scientific objectivity. Pons and Fleischmann were extremely competent in their field, and their calorimetry was excellent. Their basic intuition was correct, but they were wrong about much and did not realize how sensitive the effect they found was to precise material conditions.

Definitely premature. They were not ready to announce, and what they had was a heat anomaly. Their "nuclear evidence" was artifact and error. It was indeed a fiasco.

The name was a huge problem, it created many false expectations.

This is, of course, irrelevant to the question.

This question is not answered, I'll comment below on that.

The author appears to be David Bailey.

Oliver also calls simple documentation "lies," but does not point to specific errors, normally. I have seen evidence and I have written about it. I'm not going to keep writing it over and over. This has legal consequences, and Oliver is going to look like an idiot in court, with the "Lies!" refrain.

The media contact claim came from SkepticDave, referring to the author of two articles that Oliver has admitted writing.SkepticDave was Oliver (Aeschylus), see the block log.

The pedophilia claim was added by Schizophrenic, who was obviously and admittedly Oliver, Years later, there was an attempt to cover this up by claiming Schizophrenic was an impersonation, which is implausible. Oliver is lying here. Notice who blocked Schiizophrenic and when, and then the block log for the blocking admin, identifying him with Aeschylus, which was Oliver without any doubt.

Legally, yes. However the rest of us also have the right to our assessment of evidence and opinion. Oliver has lied about me many times and his best defense might be insanity. He's claiming indigence through his lawyer, and Aspberger's syndrome. And that he has no money, so it's useless to sue him. But Kirkegaard is not out for money, rather, his reputation has been heavily damaged, and that can be seen in all the articles based on the "child rape apologist" lie, articles pointed to by Oliver as proof of his claims.

Oliver defamed Kirkegaard in email to me. What he did with RatWiki accounts might be denied, but not the email to me, from a known Oliver Smith email account.

Wasting his time. Very expensive and not very bright.

Oliver, above, claimed I had "blamed" the Kirkegaard attacks on him. Actually, I didn't. See the commentary on the post I added.

Oliver is this inaccurate in most of his "research."

This would not cause him legal trouble, unless it could be proven it was him, in which case it could still be difficult.

I see little or no sign of Mikemikev activity on Reddit. I don't know what is in Mike's mind, but I do know what is in mine, and Oliver's fantasy is completely incorrect. I have responded on Reddit because I was attacked there, then I also responded to a two-week old post from VDARE and was immediately attacked. The Smiths track my posts and respond very rapidly. This could be Darryl instead of Oliver, but the flooding of the VDARE post certainly looks like Oliver. But so what?

Yes. The ones I saw pointed to this subreddit about Oliver D. Smith, where an account attempted to bury the comments with over a hundred spammed denials that accounts were Smith. Mikemikev would be very unlikely to do this, he'd want it that news article to be as visible as possible. I am analyzing this material and cannot give a definitive answer yet to who this was, but it certainly looks like the Smith brothers have been very active on Reddit, and for years, with many accounts. This is not Mikemikev.

Oliver has made many enemies. When one trolls him, he blames the current favorite, at this point it is Mikemikev. It was not me, and I also have not edited Wikipedia since 2011 (two IP exceptions by accident years ago)

I did not claim it was him. Oliver has claimed to be schizophrenic, which could mean that he interprets what he reads the way he expects. I wrote "This is one of many recent posts around enemies of Oliver Smith posted by throwaway accounts." (see archive)

Classic Oliver. He might not be lying about the Reddit accounts, because it might be his brother. That Mikemikev would attadk Kirkegaard is quite unlikely, because Oliver has already attacked Kirkegaard so often that another would make no difference.

I'm not at all convinced that Oliver has the capacity to stop. He has been doing this for many years.

It's obvious. Oliver should not touch accounts he believes are Mikemikev with a ten-foot pole. He can let the RW community deal with disruption. He should not be promoting users based on "suspicion." He might even be right, but it becomes a personal issue and will encourage Mikemikev to persist. It becomes a hobby, and it is easier to create disruption than it is to stop it and clean it up. That is why DNFTT.

Oliver has started blogs, but Oliver does not clearly distinguish between reality and his own fantasies. He used RWW because nobody was restraining him. What I found recently was that Oliver attacked Mikemikev on Metapedia. Essentially, he started it. Oliver presents himself as the victim, but does not understand that he cannot then be the prosecutor. Whatever Mikemikev has done, Oliver has done it more,. He was right to retire from Metapedia, claiming mental illness. This kind of continual conflict is terrible for hm. But he keeps feeding it, trolling for more response, -- and going after more and more people.

And his brother doesn't help. The brothers came to my attention because of Darryl impersonation socking, and then Oliver's original account was mentioned because I was able to connect the impersonation socking to Anglo Pyramidologist, which was Oliver's Wikipedia account, but merely the name of the sock puppet investigation page, because they were, over the years, treated as one. Darryl kept attacking, which convinced me I was onto something. Oliver, however, is far more obvious as crazy.

And Oliver lied to the WikieMedia Foundation, apparently. I had not harassed him, and had not outed him. Later, yes, I concluded that the internet was right, this was Oliver and Darryl Smith. after they had arranged my promotion and ban on RatWiki.

If that were all of it, I'd walk away.... but it's not.

Oliver should know, but he doesn't. It is always someone else who is crazy, unless he's being sued, in which case, his argument is that he is disabled. Or he lets his attorney make that argument.

Well, Oliver created offensive, libelous content there and because it was allowed, Wikia shut RWW down. At least that is the most likely explanation, and what Oliver is doing here is showing that he thinks Spud blames him. And that understanding of human relations is typical of Oliver. It's all about feuds and spats and revenge and payback.

Yes, that looks like Mike. But, again, it could be any of many racists. RatWiki encourages trolling, in fact, through the reaction. Skilled wiki admins will just WP:RBI: revert, block, ignore. DNFTT, except that Rats love feeding trolls.

If you really want to create disruption, block someone and lie about them. Some people (especially women) will walk away, but with males, in particular, I've seen the disruption continue for many years with a thousand socks, countless hours wasted, And they those who keep stoking the fire suggest that the blocked user should "grow up."

What I saw on RatWiki over the years was that as users matured, they left. There are a few who are what I'd call sober and thoughtful.

John66 is Oliver's brother Darryl. The evidence is overwhelming. Darryl was very, very active as Skeptic from Britain on Wikipedia, and had been very active for years with other accounts. He was probably being paid. So it is unlikely that he would suddenly decide to retire. Just before bailing from Wikipedia, he set up John66, attacking the same person on RatWiki as he had attacked on Wikipedia, and the edits dovetailed. And I have much, much more evidence.

There are dozens of people Tobias has offended. There was noting about Susan to specially indicate Mikemikev. This could be Michaeldsuarez, could be Emil Kirkegaard, could be me (except it wasn't! and I don't edit RatWiki just to make some snarky comment) but it could be GethN7 or John Fuerst or any of the people Tobias was trolling on his user page.

One of the claims the Smiths make about me is that I make accusations without evidence. In fact, I present evidence, if anything, too much evidence. Tobias just makes accusations, as with this.

I have yet to find a confirmed and true "impersonation' of Oliver. Schizophrenic was claimed to be an impersonation and obviously was not. Schizophreniac was also unlikely. Oliver wrote an autobiography, describing himself as he wants to be seen -- from many conversations -- and then used it to accuse Mikemikev of impersonation. Mikemikev creates parody socks, which are not impersonations as such, if nobody would be fooled into thinking it was the target. Yet clear impersonations of me have been put up, and the Rats believed it was me. Now, that's impersonation.

Again, that story is told. The numbers don't come from me. At one point, a Smith sock -- not sure which one yet -- claimed about 700 RatWiki accounts. Oliver claimed that of the accounts I was listing, as "Anglo Pyramidologist" only 0.1% were him. Since he was obviously a few accounts, and if he was telling the truth, that would make thousands of accounts. But that was not my claim. AP was the two brothers, not just Oliver. And There were many many accounts created impersonating me, and apparently others. Oliver may claim these were Mikemikev, but in some cases, that is very unlikely. But impersonation socking doesn't seem to be Oliver's game, so those many impersonation accounts would not count for his total.

Smith socks make claims but don't provide links. I have always asked for corrections, and comment is open on the blog, but they don't point to errors, they just cry "Lies!"

I have started many times to make a comprehensive list of socks for Oliver and Darry,l, and it's always been too much work. So far.

I am not convinced I have found all of them, but two dozen for Oliver might be about right.

Well, the academic freedom of Wikiversity was attacked by Oliver's brother, and heavily damaged. Topics involved are trillion-dollar issues, which Rats think are jokes. I was threatened with deletion of everything I'd written -- years of work -- if I didn't stop exposing what had happened, which at that point was relatively minor disruption, I had no idea what I would find later. This has affected the lives of many, and it is accomplished through deception, impersonation, and defamation. That's important to me. Because I know what I know, I have an obligation to communicate it. It is not up to me what people do with it, but these trolls lie, and they do it right here.

And that day, Oxyaena took Greenrd to the Coop to pursue Oliver's agenda. What was this "new leaf"?

Most Rats do not understand the hereditarian/environmentalist debate and just pop for "racist."

He may have been referring to this, but this was not a change of position.

See what was in collapse here.

There has been plenty,. see Tobias. But, I suspect, Oliver has a level of protection, it's been obvious for a long time. So Dysklyver might be reluctant to pull the plug.

See hypothes.is which annotates the user page as it was.

Oliver has admitted many things and then later claimed he was being sarcastic, even if this was implausible in context. This userpage was an an attempt to strengthen that argument. It's a joke, get it?. But he actually does or is much of what he wrote.

Oliver has been repeating old behavior, seeing The Enemy underneath every new account, if it doesn't agree completely with his position. See Tobias

His lawyer claims Aspberger's syndrome.

Oliver is not known to have been paid for his writing. His brother has been, probably.

Oliver does "character assassinate", cyberstalk, and harass his enemies, obsessively

All the names listed in rotation are ones Oliver has created RatWiki articles on, under Tobias or other names. [[Nathan Cofnas]]| [[Edward Dutton]]| [[Michael A. Woodley of Menie]]| [[John Fuerst]]| [[Noah Carl]]

I've never seen this one.

Oliver has claimed both at various times

a reasonable description of much of his behavior

Oliver also claimed schizophrenia, as Atlantid, no doubt about it.

He does create articles to defame, innocent or not.

He does live with his parents, apparently does not have a job, and does receive government benefits.

Probably not true! He certainly earned a degree in classics.

Tobias is Oliver D. Smith, there is no doubt, it is well-known on RatWiki.

Whether this comment is racist or not depends on what "race" means. It is definitely a social category, and there are differences in IQ between social categories. And then, as well, what is "IQ"? Strictly speaking, it's a test score. The subject is complex and Cofnas is correct that it is important, and also that the topic is banned. And that is a problem. However, Oliver is appealing to knee-jerk reactions, the very "political correctness" that Cofnas laments. Key to all this is the hereditarian vs. environmentalist debate. How much of intelligence is genetic and how much is a result of environment, and, even more to the point, how significant are genetic differences associated with "race" in determining performance? And then there are the political considerations. Suppose Group A is, on average, genetically disabled as to intelligence. Or environmentally, and does it matter which?

How should this affect public policy? Society has been moving strongly toward treating people as individuals, not based on membership is some group.

This was largely true, my impression. But "minor" is not defined. They apparently both filed complaints to the WMF. Is that "overlap"?

The patterns are usually distinct, though there are a few cases of accounts where I was sure that it was one of them, but not so sure which one it was. I do have means to discriminate. For example, ODS is obviously Oliver, not Darryl, even aside from the name.

I have seen and documented many examples of clear harassment, getting the mother of an enemy fired, as an example, one of my children was sent an email accusing me: "I don't know if he is a pedophile, but he's defending one."

And. of course, there was this article, clearly written as revenge for daring to stand up to their harassment of another. I am not a "pseudoscientist," by any stretch. I'm an advocate of research, not untestable belief, and I'm recognized as that, published under peer review, in a mainstream journal.

These trolls know nothing about cold fusion, just that it is "pseudoscientific," but that's not the position in the journals, nor is it the position of both DoE reviews, nor is it the position of the RatWiki article on cold fusion.

From that article: "There are credible scientists working on fusion at less than millions of degrees, but they tend to avoid the term "cold fusion."

I know almost all the "credible scientists," and most of them support my work. The term is generally avoided, and the main reason for that is that the word "fusion" creates associations that were misleading. I.e, this is not your grandfather's fusion. But it is fusion, that has been shown beyond a reasonable doubt. And how we know that is what my article was about.

Actually, I found a claim from Darryl that he was being paid, many years ago. It's plausible. As well, Oliver, when he claimed he had been lying for years, that there is no active brother, it was all him -- this is shown in the emails hosted on my site -- included that he had lied to Tim Farley. Why mention Tim Farley?

Because Farley would have been a connection with JREF, which is an organization that might support what Darryl does. And then there was Oliver's earlier comment that his brother might be paid. His brother has done a huge amount of work "debunking." It is quite plausible that he might be paid.

It is not "random" people. It starts with primary targets, like Rupert Sheldrake, and then extends to anyone who interferes with that agenda, which would be Rome Viharo, and myself. I was heavily attacked before any possible allegations of doxxing. (Identifying possible sock puppets is not doxxing, that's well understood, except that the Smiths have successfully gotten people blocked on RatWiki for pointing to sock puppets.)

Or the target of two trolls, who successfully gets administrators and officials to do his bidding.This has happened over and over, they file complaints, and multiple complaints? Must be real. Ban. It has worked many times.

The problem, GC, is that the article and massive drama was created by the Smith brothers. I made one brief comment. This continued, and Oliver Smith is still creating disruption on RatWiki. Darryl is much more stable, but vicious in a deeper way. Most impersonation socking is likely Darryl.

This was me, I think, editing by IP.

I wrote that it was possible. He is actually being sued, by another target. This "post" was a comment pn the post announcing the CFC wiki -- which has now been opened up and is taking off -- and I made that comment immediately on learning of the global ban.

The Smith brothers were known as Anglo Pyramidologist on Wikipedia, and were treated as if one. I have certainly not "harassed" them, but I documented what they have been doing for years. There was no actual "house address" published, but a street and postal code, that was up for one day. This is hardly harassing families, and there was no phone number given. Oliver Smith has filed a long series of requests for Google to suppress search results, against many sites. He is highly disruptive and has offended many, and some of them talk about it, then he plays victim.

And that is a lie. He emailed me, so I responded. Oliver is literally insane. (But ODS was openly Oliver.)

There are a lot more than that! Basically, I use hypertext for deep studies, and this is one frikkin' complicated situation, spanning many years of internet disruption, long before I was involved.

The chickens are coming home to roost. Later, Oliver tried to get some of the articles he had written taken down, because he is being sued.

The blog has pages of many kinds. Many pages are simply compilations of links. They are not "articles." The blog also has the only collection of case files for Rossi v. Darden, and it has every issue of the Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear science and archives of all ICCF conference proceedinds and related materials.

It serves its purpose. It is also incidentally used to document this "Anglo Pyramidologist" mess.

Nope. Almost every claimed incident like that was impersonation socking, probably by Darryl.

Bongolian noticed. But Bongolian also swallowed their lies. He applied sysoprevoke to my RatWiki account when they accused me of hacking Debunking spiritualism (Darryl Smith). In fact, Darryl used that to conceal a series of blocks and deletions, hiding places where Oliver had revealed the brother relationship.

Basically, one day I had an image that is also found in many places on the interet, giving the occupants of the Smith residence, showing the names, ages, and a street. I took it down, redacted all the toher names except for the trolls, Oliver and Darryl. Oliver is well known, Darryl much less, but notice that "El Badboy" is acknoweldging that what I put up was info on a RatiojnalWiki user. Great. Which ones?

But this again is typical with their hit pieces: an incident is conflated into a pattern. Instead of "did," and the siingular, it becomes "does" as if this were being done constantly. They are only talking about themselves.

If I were a lawyer assigned one as a client. They take everything out of context.

This is total BS. I knew Ben because of a conversation with a Nobel Prize winner in which Ben wanted to study parapsychology, so I set up the resource for him, for it to be neutral and thus allowable on Wikiversity. I had never discussed politics or controversial issues with him, never talked with him other than with a very little email. Steigmann later told me he had been a racist but had abandoned that. These trolls dig up whatever dirt they can from the past of their targets, whatever will look bad, and they also attack anyone who helps their enemies in any way, even if only to point out the truth in the face of lies. And that is what happened, and why the Smiths came after me.

I documented those blocks, in fact, a number of them were meaningless. I was blocked several times by a rogue sysop, I got his tools removed. I was in good standing for quite some time when rather abruptly blocked, and this is a pattern for the Smiths. Private complaints.

That is the impression they want to create, and they do create it, through private complaints. That is what the Wikliversity bureaucrat claimed, he was acting on private complaints. An individual admin had no authority to ban on Wikiversity, I was simply blocked, for a total bullshit reason, that was obvious. And then I was globally banned, we will get to that.

Notice how one sock because an example of many. What many? That was a single experiment in 2011, and, done, I never edited Wikipedia again.

I'm a journalist, I don't want to write anonymously, but that is all these trolls do! Except we see ODS -- Oliver D. Smith, showing up here. He has been many, many accounts on RatWiki, confirmed and admitted, and now he is Tobias.

I've been active since the 1980s on-line. I had rarely been banned, and that is still the case. I was banned on Wikipedia, not on any other WMF wiki and not on any other wiki at all. Etc. They are lying to the RatWiki community.

On LENR Forum I did declare a boycott and was immediately banned. "You can't quit, you're fired." So I started working on my own blog, and never looked back. It's been profitable, far better than wasting my time on LENR Forum, which was not a place to build content.

Is Zeus46 a "guy" or an anonymous troll? There is a LENR Forum user by that name, but also an RatWiki accounts shows up and recent trolling on the cold fusion community. All these accounts with exactly the same party line.

what things, where? What who are these people? It's very obvious. They are Oliver and Darryl Smith, ant his is almost all Darryl. Certainly Oliver later claimed that. But Oliver shows up on this page.

where did I say that?

where have I been "concerned for getting in trouble"?

Actually, I used the archiving times to identify these trolls. However, this was very much not good for Schroeder. I was able to get that Thunderbolts post taken down, but, again, because of the archiving. . .

That is not my term, it is theirs, but this is not about "skeptics," and these trolls abuse RatWiki as an attack platform to go after personal enemies.

I called Schroeder a pseudoskeptic, but it was hardly an "attack." And these trolls, we will see, readily call even scientists "pseudoscientists." IN fact, they are haters, and created the RatWiki article as revenge for exposing their impersonation socking on Wikipedia and attacks on Wikiversity.

The purpose of these trolls was not to protect Schroeder, but to defame me. I removed that post and also got a forum copy deleted, but because of the archiving, they remained available.

He does live with his parents, apparently does not have a job, and does receive government benefits.

He does create articles to defame, innocent or not.

Oliver also claimed schizophrenia

Oliver has claimed both at various times

All the names listed in rotation are ones Oliver has created RatWiki articles on, under Tobias or other names.

Oliver does "character assassinate" and cyberstalk his enemies, obsessively

Tobias is Oliver D. Smith, there is no doubt, it is well-known on RatWiki.

As is also common, Welton confuses faith (which is a condition of the heart) with belief (which is about ideas of truth).

Many Muslims believe -- or simply trust -- that women are religiously obligated to cover their heads. This has zero relevance to her being loyal or patriotic. Further, there is the matter of her oath of office, which Islam requires her to honor. It's Qur'an, fundamental. Welton is ignorant of Islam.

He will cite research that is interesting, to be sure -- he is a skilled writer, but that has no application to the core issue here because there is no intrinsic conflict, as there is with the research he will cite.

Anyone from a tribal society. But is she "identifying" with that group? He is claiming that nobody from a different culture could be an American, which means he has a fixed idea of what American culture is, when we rejected that long ago. Most of us, that is.

This is utterly offensive. This asshole probably has a filthy penis. But I won't say "almost certainly." Because I really don't know. Maybe he is Jewish, but, then, how could he be a loyal American?

While female circumcision is common in Somalia, she came from an educated family where it may have been less common, and further, what he describes is the extreme practice. The extreme practice is actually condemned by Muslim scholars. And this is utterly irrelevant and an appeal to prejudice.

No, this asshole cites the Bible for his ignorant syllogism. This is true about "two masters" if they are different.

OMG. The poor snowflake might be anxious. Therefore the woman should not be allowed to wear a scarf, or she should be removed from our sight.

Fascist asshole.

Okay, that's a lie. They are wearing an effing scarf, not a declaration of enmity. If she is a true Muslim, and her obligations -- including her oath of office -- were to require her to take it off, she would. The scarf is mentioned in the Qur'an as a mark of being a believer, one who trusts in God, which means nothing other than reality. If is not a declaration of factional affiliation, though fanatics may take it so. (Forcing women to cover is a mark of fanaticism, not Islam.)

But the sun shines on the just and the unjust. His argument is utterly silly. Yes, there are issues with divided loyalty. But one can commit to more than one thing in life. The problem he is addressing -- it can be a real problem -- arises when there is a conflict between the two. Being an American is not a religious commitment, and we decided long ago to keep religion and nationality separate. That's actually "American." And so Welton is un-American, in a basic way. But many others, born here, are like him. What makes one an "American"? Is it religiion, color of skin, or a particular set of cultural norms. Or is it a declared allegiance to a document, the Constitution? Omar has declared that allegiance, and her religion requires her to honor that oath. Her religion does not require her to violate it. What Welton proposes may be based on what certain "Muslim" fanatics claim. And I have seen this many times, those who hate Islam claim that we, as Muslims,. are obligated to kill "unbelievers," which is the opposite of what is actually in the Qur'an, which only allows fighting in defense, and prohibits harming others beyond immediate necessity. I.e., it requires civilized behavior, or just basic good nature.

He showed not one "sound reason." She has a religion that requires her to honor her oath (and, in addition, to respect and not betray those who give her refuge). The reasons he gives are ignorant, prejudiced, partisan, and flirt with racism.

This kind of suspicion has been around for a long time. I remember Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose censure was shortly before I came of age. This concept of "American" excluding people who are different is old. I picketed a meeting of the House Un-American Activities Committee when I was a student at Cal Tech. The very name was un-American. We have always been a "melting pot," diverse, though also often falling short of that ideal. Nevertheless, this was our strength, it is what Made America Great.