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I'm not convinced there is anything there at all except for the
enthusiasm of the true believers. The original paper by Pons and
Fleischman describing cold fusion (that they submitted to Science or
Nature) was the worst scientific paper I have ever read. There was no
evidence to back up their claims. Their subsequent behavior, as
described by Robert Park in his wonderful book
`Voodoo Science: The Road from
Foolishness to Fraud' removed all possible doubt that they had
discovered anything. The entire physics and chemistry communities
then tried to reproduce their results and failed.
Until such time as the cold fusion community can reproducibly show
that they have achieved significant fusion, through the detection of radiation,
heat and helium, and that these results scale (ie: when you double the
size of the apparatus, you double the effect), I will ignore them and
their 'results'.
- Larry Weinstein, April 2007
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