Saturday, January 7, 2017

Eugene Mallove

        Somebody on Bellgab the other day referenced the murder of Eugene Mallove, 13 years ago this year, and expressed the usual conspiradroid assumption that Mallove was murdered by agents of Big Physics and Big Energy, fearful that Mallove was on the verge of a breakthrough in free energy that would threaten their own entrenched dominance. At the time, Tom Bearden wrote "Since Mallove was increasingly successful in his attempts to make cold fusion accepted by the scientific community at large… then obviously Mallove was an unacceptable threat and he had to go." Brian O'Leary wrote "Most of us in the field believe that this murder was an assassination." Bearden and O'Leary are (or were) enthusiasts for so-called "Free Energy" who were never able to demonstrate a working device. Even Richard Hoagland said on Coast to Coast AM "I can’t believe it’s just coincidence.”note 1

        Who was Eugene Mallove? A qualified aeronautical engineer who had a prodigious talent for writing on technical and scientific subjects. He taught science journalism at M.I.T. and became a strong proponent of cold fusion and other forms of "Free Energy."  He came to believe that the original Pons & Fleischmann cold fusion experiment of 1989 was what it seemed to be—the beginning of a whole new physics. He created the New Energy Foundation and launched the periodical Cold Fusion, which became Infinite Energy but still under Mallove's editorship until his death. He was a conspiracy theorist, I suppose, to the extent that he promoted the view that Pons & Fleischmann were the victims of an organized campaign of ridicule by mainstream physicists.

What happened
        The facts of Mallove's brutal murder have been proved in a court of law by witnesses, and cannot really be disputed. He had recently evicted tenants from the home where he was raised in Norwich CT. He was in the process of junking the tenants' possessions when the tenants' son, Chad Shaffer, happened by. Shaffer was accompanied by Mozelle Brown and Shaffer's girlfriend Candace Foster. An argument ensued, and Shaffer and Brown eventually bludgeoned Mallove to death. The wheels of justice ground exceedingly slowly in this case, but Schaffer copped to manslaughter on 20 April 2012 and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Brown was convicted of murder in October 2014 and got 58 years.

        As evidenced by the opinion expressed on Bellgab last week, conspiracy-minded people remain convinced that Mallove was offed by agents of Big Physics and Big Energy, rather than by two derelict thugs who Mallove had annoyed very grievously. There are three reasons why I reject this view of the tragedy.

ONE. To make the story work, BP&BE would have to have recruited Shaffer & Brown, and paid them enough to do the foul deed even though their entire lives would then be ruined. BP&BE would have to have known of Mallove's plan to ditch his tenants' belongings, and instructed Shaffer & Brown to show up at the time and place. This strikes me as utterly unbelievable. Of course I know that powerful people employ hit-men to off their enemies, it happens all the time. But the enemies get whacked in private, not out in the open in front of witnesses. That way the hit-men stay out of jail and are available for the next job. BP&BE would have had unbelievable good luck in finding a thug who would a) agree to the deal, and b) have a plausible motive of his own.

TWO. Mallove's rĂ´le in the "Free Energy" movement was as a promoter and reporter of other people's work. He himself was developing nothing at all that was any threat to BP&BE. Surely, if anybody was going to feel the power of entrenched interests, it would be those engineers and physicists who were actually developing something in their labs that might actually work. The likes of Bearden and O'Leary would have something to fear, in this scenario.

THREE. If the motive of BP&BE was to suppress Mallove's strongly-expressed opinions, they were remarkably unsuccessful, let's face it. The periodical Infinite Energy lives on with a different editor. The Nov/Dec 2016 edition is currently on sale. Mallove's writings also live on, and his 1991 book Fire from Ice: Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furor is still in print.

        So for those reasons I find that the conspiracy theory in this case doesn't hold water. Personally I have nothing but encouragement for those who choose to try cheating the laws of physics, but cold fusion was first theorized in 1989 and we're still waiting for it to show social benefit. Mind you, you could say the same or worse about mainstream controlled fusion research, too.

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[1] Transcript of C2C-AM, 15 May 2004

31 comments:

THE Orbs Whiperer said...

According to Richard C Hoagland, he was the last known person to speak to Dr Mallove by telephone less than one hour before he was assassinated. During that conversation, Mallove told Hoagland that he was in possession of an over unity device. The NSA records all telecommunications. Does the NSA not inform local authorities of who tapped Hoagland's and Mallove's conversation, in order to protect Rights of Privacy?

expat said...

A couple of corrections to the above: Hoagland said he had talked to Mallove "a couple days ago," not less than an hour before he was [assassinated].

According to that C2C transcript, Mallove was not actually in possession of an over-unity device, but "personally saw it, witnessed it, wrote about it … gave testimonials." Wouldn't we all like to know where that device is now?

My understanding is that NSA only records meta-information on routine phone calls. In plain language, they know who calls who and when, but the actual content of all calls would be an impossibly huge amount on data.

Chris Lopes said...

Come on Expat, with someone as important as Richard C. Hoagland I'm sure the NSA keeps tabs on his every movement. Otherwise, how would they know where and when to deploy their vast army of well paid disinformation agents? It all makes perfect sense as long as you don't think about it too much.

THE Orbs Whiperer said...

I listened to that Dick Hoagland on Coast, live, saying what I said he said.

Binaryspellbook said...

One of the most repugnant things about the pseudoscience crowd is their cringe-worthy double standards. One one hand they reject mainstream science as an establishment cover up, a front, a facade to brainwash the great unwashed into being robotic slaves. Yet as soon as mainstream science comes to within a breadcrumb of what they believe they are all over it like a herd of pigs fighting for a place at the trough, squealing "EVEN MAINSTREAM NOW AGREE." As I predicted in .

Cake and eat it crew personified. You either reject mainstream or you don't. But no, it gets worse. Hoagland et al claim drip drip drip disclosure, and NASA can legitimately claim to have released bona fide images of artificial ruins, mega structures and broken robot heads. It was we engineers, scientists and astronomers who either STFU or were too dumb to decode these alleged messages.

Until King Richard turns up with a cheap alternative.

THE Orbs Whiperer said...

A friend and former Air Force Intelligence officer, told me in 1978, that in the early, 1960s, that the NSA was monitoring ALL telephone calls via computer, enabled with speech recognition to perform 'key word search'. If certain words were used during a telephone conversation, the call would then be recorded and red flagged for an agent to evaluate. If suspicious, thereafter all further telephone calls by those people would be recorded for further evaluation. Latter of course, there was Echelon, a multinational cooperation, where foreign agents would eavesdrop on Americans within the United States, and the share that intel with the NSA, in order to evade the Domestic Spying Act, which the PatRIOT Act and subsequent USA Freedom Act, ostensibly supersede.

expat said...

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying

This article isn't dated (tut-tut, EFF) but I think it's up-to-date.

THE Orbs Whiperer said...

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2004/05/15

Date Saturday - May 15, 2004
Host Art Bell
Guests David Wilcock, Richard C. Hoagland

(In this four-hour appearance, they also commented on the death of Eugene Mallove,
in the first hour).

THE Orbs Whiperer said...

Echelon: See, I told you so
11/04/1999

[excerpts]

For those of you who don’t believe anything that can’t be confirmed
without official government sources, you now have your proof that
Echelon is real — that there really is a global spy network that can
eavesdrop on every single phone call, fax or e-mail, anywhere on the
planet.

The BBC (that’s the British Broadcasting Company, a semi-official
news agency in the United Kingdom) has just such confirmation from the
Australian government that Echelon exists and that officials in the U.S.
are beginning to call for an investigation. For the record, the
governments of Britain and the United States still officially deny its
existence.

With listening posts around the world, Echelon is controlled and
managed by the National Security Agency at Fort Mead, Md. Every
international telephone call, fax, e-mail, or radio transmission can be
listened to by powerful computers capable of voice recognition. They
home in on a long list of key words,
or patterns of messages. They are looking for evidence of international
crime, like terrorism.

Now, the man who oversees Australia’s security services, Inspector
General of Intelligence and Security Bill Blick, has confirmed to the
BBC that their Defense Signals Directorate does form part of the
network.

http://www.wnd.com/1999/11/1476/

expat said...

Theadora: The C2C show you cite is the same as the one whose transcript I cited as Note 1. Please be more observant. Kthxbye.

THE Orbs Whiperer said...

Do you have a link to a rip of the show, Patrick? Hoagland says on it, that "he"
(meaning Mallove) was in possession of an over unity device, seemingly to have been stolen. I used the word, "assassination", above, but Hoagland wondered if Mallove had been killed for having the device.

expat said...

No, but you can read the transcript.

Hoagland does not say that, I've already pointed that out. Please be more observant. Kthxbye

THE Orbs Whiperer said...


That transcript is a whitewash. Hoagland realized that he had implicated himself as an accessory in the assassination of Dr Eugene Mallove, whether he called somebody right after talking to Mallove on the phone, or he went over there and beat the crap out of him, himself. Hoagland works for the DoD. He not only continually deletes all mention of Project Prometheus and the X-37B from his facebutt page, he refuses to say or write those names at all. Anything nuclear is Hoagland's bailiwick. He's a spook, tasked with undermining all interest into any of the very things he purports to promote. Just as the moderator to this page, likes to open a can of worms, just to go fishing to see who needs help in seeing what Hoagland expects people to figure out for themselves; to conclude that it's bunk. ExPat and that Dick Hoagland are two peas in a body snatcher's, pod.

THE Orbs Whiperer said...

PS-
While Hoagland is obligated to secrecy with the DoD, he's more likely on the payroll with the Department of Energy.

THE Orbs Whiperer said...


In March 1989, Pons and Fleischmann claimed that they were able to produce nuclear fusion by electrolysis of heavy water with a palladium cathode. Their main evidence for this claim was the production of excess heat which could not be explained by any known chemical process. In may 1989, the American Physical Society after examining evidence from major laboratories, concluded that no excess heat is produced in the Pons and Fleischmann experiment. however, in 1994, after careful evaluation of the 1989 data used for the Physical Society conclusions, it was discovered that serious errors were made. these error invalidated the conclusions reached by the American Physical Society in 1989. [see J. Phys. Chem , 1994, 98: 1948-1952. ]

Our own research on the Pons and Fleischmann experiment has been fruitful. For example, surface crater were observed on the palladium cathode after a 12 minute experiment. During longer experiments, excess heat, localized melting, and localized concentrations of unexpected elements were observed.

Our studies are continuing. We currently are studying glow discharge, in which others have reported excess heat and evidence of nuclear ash.

John Dash
Professor Emeritus of Physics
Portland State University

https://www.pdx.edu/physics/john-dash-0

http://web.pdx.edu/~pdx00210/Papers/paperr/paperr07.pdf

expat said...

Long comment from Theadora disallowed. The text was simply Gary Leggiere's plea for an investigation of UFO Diaries that we've all seen before.

Anonymous said...

@ Ripley a.k.a. Theodora a.k.a. The Orbs Whip a.k.a. whatever tickles her fancy - concerning DoD

Hoagland is not on the payroll with the Department of Energy, real or imaginary, nor with any other Department for that dark matter or any other nonexistent matter :-) Truth be told...he's simply on the Department of Dicks payroll, nothing fancy to it

Adrian

PS why not change your name into "the Orbs Whip" or the Orbs wipe" :-) it has somewhat more panache to it than "The Orbs Whiperer" because it rimes with Diaper :-) a product I recommend for people who talk a lot of shit and/or are full of it :-)

THE Orbs Whiperer said...


In a live, instant messaging exchange, Richard C Hoagland was unhesitant in describing to me, the topographical layout of the campus of UC Berkeley, whereas in context thereof, he specifically described the location of the nuclear power plant.

His first visit with George Noory as host of Coast, he dominated the entire show, promoting Project Prometheus, advocating the audience to email the White House to buy it, so that NASA could make quick missions to Mars. Of course, Hoagland also attributes the naming of the first Spaceshuttle, Enterprise, to himself. Ironic how he evades all mention of the mini shuttle, the X-37B and Project Prometheus, ever since the DoD bought Project Prometheus.

The night that the X-37B returned to Earth from it's maiden voyage, after having according to the Air Force, "disappeared" in Space for nine months, Hoagland went on Coast in praise of NASA for announcing the discovery of an arsenic up taking bacteria, ostensibly increasing the odds of extraterrestrial life. Also ironic, because Hoagland always says how full of shit that NASA is, and even though that bacteria has been proven to not up take arsenic, NASA neglects to retract the announcement which stole the headlines from the reappearance of the X-37B

expat said...

The above is totally irrelevant to this thread but I've allowed it. Hoagland does not avoid all mention of the X-37B. He might get its name wrong, however.

expat said...

Further comment from Theadora disallowed. She wants to push Gary Leggiere's p.o.v. but I'm not having it. I've already written all I ever intend to on that topic.

THE Orbs Whiperer said...

The comment about Gary was not the main point of my rebuttal. You are obviously afraid that I make a valid point about Hoagland being a spook.

expat said...

I'm not in the least afraid, no. As moderator of this thread, I'm trying to keep the basic topic in mind and discourage scattershot comments.

expat said...

Responding to Theadora's latest comment (also disallowed): I did not raise the topic of National Security, you did. I think it's a sideshow, that's why I'm blocking you.

Anonymous said...

"...Mallove was murdered by agents of Big Physics and Big Energy..." As Energy is a matter of National Security, I would say that the author of this thread, did indeed, raise the issue.

expat said...

*Groan* Theadora's disallowed comment was inaccurate, too. She cited Hoagland's hysteria over the Deepwater Horizon disasster, or should I say "mis-cited." In fact, he claimed that there was a 20-mile wide bubble of methane at a pressure of 100,000 psi under the Gulf of Mexico. Ludicrous. Totally untrue.

jourget said...

I remember how shrill his voice became during his Deepwater Horizon freakout, demanding everybody evacuate the Gulf States and get themselves to safety. Totally just trying to scare everyone and get them to demand more "real" information from the expert.

And, yeah, he's folded the X-37B into his conspiracy plenty of times, not trying to ignore it at all. A few examples:

2011-04-03, Amsterdam "Secret Space Program Conference" panel discussion: The X-37B is a way of fighting back against the Space Nazis, because they can't see it, and it's doing recon on the Nazi polar lunar bases.

2011-06-15, C2C: Basically the same as above.

2011-09-24, RCH's Awake and Aware Conference presentation: The X-37B has made a flyby of asteroid (actually spaceship) YU55 and is bringing the secret info home.

expat said...

Two more comments disallowed, on the theme of gas deposits -- probably Theadora posing as "anonymous." Blogspot makes that too easy.

Anonymous said...

I'm not posing as Anonymous, Adrian's the one, posing as Anonymous. What else is he supposed to do, ass Patrick blocked him?

expat said...

Isn't the above a self-cancelling comment?

Anonymous said...


"I'm not posing as Anonymous, Adrian's the one, posing as Anonymous. What else is he supposed to do, ass Patrick blocked him?"
:-)

Sorry darling :-)..it wasn't me

Adrian

Anonymous said...

"Isn't the above a self-cancelling comment?"

hmmmm....that's a definitive yes :-)

Adrian