liars-and-con men whose experiments couldn't even come close to being replicated. Well, in the first few weeks after the announcement, several labs said they h

liars-and-con men whose experiments couldn't even come close to being replicated. Well, in the first few weeks after the announcement, several labs said they had replicated the experiment, so if Fleishmann and Pons were liars or con men, I suppose we must assume a vast conspiracy of such across several notable institutions... well, that or some people were excited, mistaken, and desperately wanted to find evidence of something that apparently wasn't there. Bad results -- even replication of results ultimately found to be bad -- do not require liars, only error.