Fayetteville Free Weekly

[tmiller51]

Anyone else catch the bogus article run on the front page of the Fayetteville Free Weekly this week? link

Embarrassing.

[Dardedar]

Anyone else catch the bogus article run on the front page of the Fayetteville Free Weekly this week? link

Embarrassing.

DAR
Yes, I just read that this afternoon. Amazing. Looks like I have my meeting topic for our next installment of caveat emptor. I plan to completely take the article apart line by line. It is a text book example of scammery. This is exactly the kind of crap us Freethinkers need to go after and challenge. I intend to write a letter to the paper, and perhaps the guy in question, offering him a prize of $100,000 if he can demonstrate his gizmo to work under proper observing conditions.

The paper really should be embarrassed for giving this ridiculous, obviously bogus and completely vapid story front page coverage.

At this moment there are three responses at the Free Weekly site. I encourage people to go there and speak up.

The fellow's website is here. Okay, I just checked it out. Pathetic. Anyone who falls for this probably deserves it... but for this paper to give coverage to this kind of crap? Really incredible. It reads like a skeptic trying to do a parody of a scammer. The Onion could practically print his material as is.

D.

[Savonarola]

Howard said his method “ventures into the realm of the innate genetics of atoms and the manner in which they naturally select their relationships,”

As someone with a degree in biochemistry, I know a boatload about both "genetics" and "atoms" and "the manner in which they naturally select their 'relationships.'" There's no such thing as the genetics of atoms, and somebody dumb enough to think he can get away with such a description is likely a world-class dumbass.

Howard would not reveal much about his discovery, except for saying that he and the late Guy Loyd, a longtime Springdale, Ark., resident and an industrial engineer, had worked together on a simple system in the 1960’s.

Secretive, and the only possible confirmation is a dead guy. Man, I'm on the edge of my seat...

“Too good to be true” is the cliché’ a skeptic might use to describe Howard’s claim, but what if he is correct in his assumption about what he has discovered?

Then I'll eat my shorts. And his. My question is: If I'm right, will he publicly admit that he's either (a) a dumbass or (b) a fraud, whichever the case may be? I won't even make him eat my shorts.

But, that’s where the problem comes in, Howard said. Those most powerful—the corporation and government bodies that hold interest in keeping the public away from a self-sustaining systems like PEGS-POWER—trap people into spending a lot of money on their air polluting products and they do not want him to succeed.

And finally, conspiracy theory. I bet those bastard scientists who fabricated the second law of thermodynamics are just in the government's pocketbook, too...

I hate idiots.

[ChristianLoeschel]

Now, dont get me wrong, this sounds like a load, largely due to the secrecy and the scam of "buy my prints and ill send you the pegs-power portfolio".

But I dont think we have enough information to dismiss this guy...just as we dont have enough information to confirm it.

It sounds to me like he is basing his invention on a principle called Molecular Recognition, which is a major emerging field of study in chemistry. It covers things like how an enzyme recognizes its substrate and such, and the energies envolved in such bindings. How exactly you would be able to get any tangible energetic benefit out of this is beyond me...if you somehow managed to use the binding energy between host and substrate, you would have to put in the same amount of energy to break them apart again as well.

[Doug]

But I dont think we have enough information to dismiss this guy...just as we dont have enough information to confirm it.

DOUG
Let's invite this "inventor" to give a presentation at our next meeting!!

[Tony]

Oh Doug and Darrel please do roast this guy! I'll show up for that.
I saw this too up here in Benton County. My wife Amanda, a Physics major, and I had a good laugh at it. I wonder though, are you guys really surprised that this rag ran such an idiotic piece? This is the kind of bogus crap I have come to expect from Fayetteville's huge population of very froofy lefties. In fact, anti-Enlightenment unreasoning, is part of my nebulous definition of "froofy lefty" in the first place. Anti-science and Anti-Enlightenment/ anti-reason is what 'froofy' lefties have in common with conservatives. In fact, ala Burke, anti-Enlightenment sentiment IS the definition of classical conservatism, so maybe I shouldn't call the froofies "lefties" at all. Hmm.
No surprise to me. But If you roast this guy, I bet you make a bunch of new enemies with new agey, conspiracy, granola froofy anti-science left. It might even cause a split amongst the "freethinkers". Heh.
Keep me posted on a possible roast of this guy.