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Old 07-12-2008, 01:57 AM   #35 (permalink)
schola
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infinitethoughts,

I've noticed that the basis for your position on this free energy stuff seems to be that you believe their are corporate interests who are suppressing these new technologies. I agree that their are greedy corporations with less than honest intentions and we should treat their actions with a healthy dose of skepticism.

Yet I don't understand how you cannot also apply this same level of skepticism to these "little guys" who might be grade A bullshitters interested in ripping people off, just like the big businessmen.

I personally treat every claim with skepticism, which is why every guy who comes along claiming to have discovered a "free" energy source has to try very hard before to prove it to me before I would be convinced.

Most of these people are crackpots or charlatans. I'm sure there are honest-to-God geniuses among those we label crackpots, but there is a difference between someone like Tesla, who proved himself by producing many real, workable technologies, and some dude who appeared once on a local TV news station and was never heard from again.

Stanely Meyer for example never produced any reproduce-able technologies even though he had many interested investors before he died. He was even successfully sued by some of these investors for fraud when he never came through on his promises.

The truth is, there are going to be people with ulterior motives on both sides of an issue.
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