Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
From: hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:05:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Fleischmann interview in JIR

[ I hope you all don't get this message twice. ]

hoey@zogwarg.etl.army.mil (I) wrote:

>The latest issue of the Journal of Irreproducible Results has an
>interview in which Martin Fleischmann comments on the recent rumors.
>I could try to excerpt it if there is interest, though it's somewhat
>difficult to find a happy medium between giving enough detail to give
>you the idea of it and copying the entire article.

I did include ``may be harmful if swallowed'' in the Keywords line,
but the Fusion Digest dropped it, so one person felt it necessary to
warn me I should take JIR with a grain of salt.  People have sent me
email asking if I could fax the interview to them.  When the long
distance phone calls started, it was clear I had better start spinning
this one down, so here's the scoop on the interview.

The article, by Marc Abrahams, gives a short history of the cold
fusion discovery and controversy, and shows a photo of Martin
Fleischmann holding a cold fusion cell.  It continues:

  During the past two years, sensational rumors have swirled abouit
  Fleischmann and Pons.  Now, in an exclusive interview with the
  _Journal_of_Irreproducible_Results_, Martin Fleischmann reveals
  the truth about the recent rumors.

The rest of the article is the interview proper.  I would dearly love
to include it here, but I would feel terribly guilty at reprinting
what was supposed to be an exclusive interview.  But I think I can
fairly tell you that the only question asked was, ``Are the rumors
true about you and Madonna?''  And the answer was one word long.
It seems those rumors are not true.

Maybe now you see why it was so difficult to find a compromise between
excerpting and quoting in whole.

If you still want the JIR, here's the information from the title page.
The publisher is Blackwell Scientific Publications, Inc., 238 Main
Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142.  Individual subscriptions
are US $15 in the US, $20 in Canada, and $35 overseas.  Phone
subscriptions are 1-800-759-6102.  The article is in JIR volume 37,
number 4 (August 1992) on page 8.

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil