The American Physical Society IS the ultimate authority this topic. 60 Minutes went to the American Physical Society to provide an impartial scientist to 60 Minutes to essentially go out to one of the lab where the work was being done and do a hand on peer review of the work being done. The impartial scientist went to that lab, looked closely at everything for 2 days, came back and said "something interesting is going on." and said he was shocked he's coming back to tell 60 Minutes that something was going on.
So why don't those who don't even take the time to watch a few minutes of video about a subject shut up and quit annoying the people who are trying to get a little science done.
And news.yc is the ultimate authority in [topic for topic in science]. ;)
I caught the segment earlier tonight. Found it fascinating and enough to send me on procrastination adventure; not enough to speak about. I don't understand it.
Sure, 60 Minutes isn't the be all end all, but hey, it's a lead on crazy good stuff.
Its mass media. Given the subject matter, I'm quite happy with the coverage. The fact that they didn't do a one-sided piece and find a lot of scientists to debunk it out of hand is very good. More so, they researched multiple research institutes who were able to replicate the experiments, had an independent skeptical scientist thoroughly examine one of the experimental setups, and even found Pentagon researchers who have also duplicated these results. For those of us who are really, really interested we know how to do more research. For the general public who are curious but not that interested, its a great introduction to something that can very well be changing our future very quickly.
