Peer review? Scientific method? NOT working well!

April 2010, the pulser pump is being tested in Queens University, Ontairo Canada and results so far are very good!
2 appropriate technology Devices which have gone 20 and 30 years WITHOUT independent testing (peer review) that might increase understanding of physics.
Why no peer review? Why no independant testing?
What is going on? Please comment

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[gaiatechnician]

Just a note that I made a video "Nano Airlift pump demo., how high will it pump?" in April 2011 and several people have responded. My attempt used air pressure of 1/10 of an atmosphere to push water 13 ft high. (I had only enough tubing to get to 13 ft high). Some have tried it and someone got to 16 ft under non ideal conditions. This is real peer review! A real question where the answer is unknown and ordinary people stepping up and providing the answer. Why did no physicists step up?

[ogo08]

I don't understand why everyone else has the responsibility to check your work. If you want someone to, pay them to do it.

[gaiatechnician]

@ogo08 What happens if someone (not me) who is really poor has a really good idea. He or she cannot pay so the idea dies? There are more people and better educated people alive right now than have lived in all of civilization. There must be at least 50 Einsteins and a couple of hundred Newtons running around. Not all of them have money. We would do a lot better if people like you had intellectual curiosity and paid close attention regardless of where the ideas are coming from.

[ogo08]

@gaiatechnician You are right, it sucks if you are poor and have a good idea and it dies as a result. Note that the scientific process is extremely rigorus. We just have to live with that. Scientists do what they do because of deep intellectual curiosity. A poor man proved the poincare conjecture and was taken seriously because he played by the intellectual rules. Your idea might be good, but why should anyone pay attention to you if your work is done with careless practices?

[gaiatechnician]

@ogo08 If they are rigorous, they should be able to ignore me and test the idea.

It is not "my" idea. I did not patent it. People are strange and very shallow if they put up barriers in their minds just because I cannot afford perfect equipment. If the idea contains unknowns, the curious mind is expected to seek out the unknown truth, isn't it? Anyway, thats my view.

I have been low on ideas lately so even if I knew the rules, I could not get into the club.

[ogo08]

@Mauromoustakos The word peer in "peer reviewed" refers to the people that read the paper written and submitted on an experiment. When they read the paper they check and see if the experiment was done in an acceptable manor and judge the validity of the results reported in the paper. A peer does not necessarily do the same experiment as you, they just usually work in the same area so then they have to proper background to understand and review the work presented in the report.

[Mauromoustakos]

@ogo08

Another person will check my work not because he has any responsibility, but because he has the interest to do it. And he will have the interest, because he is also a scientist with an interest and knowledge on the same field. This is the meaning of a peer.

On the other hand, paying someone to check my work is the worst possible scenario, because his opinion, or her opinion, will not be independent from me.

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[Jostedalsosten]

Besides, why are you surprised that you don't get peer reviewed when your stuff is only found on YouTube and a wiki? If you want to get peer reviewed, visit a univeristy.

[Jostedalsosten]

Of cource you don't have any peer reviewed reports from this, it's not a scientific theory it's an invention...

[ogo08]

@gaiatechnician What reason do they have to test the idea? They spend their time testing other ideas, you need to convince them your idea is worth looking at if you want them to do so. The people do not put up barriers in their mind because of imperfect equipment, it is because you do not use the imperfect equipment properly. Write a paper about what you did and what the results were. People get published using crappy equipment all the time because they know how to do honest science.