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A default position of skepticism works in both cases.
by duaneb 10y ago
A default position of skepticism works in both cases.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoSure, we have to be careful about these things. Replication is key, which is where the Utah results fell down quickly. Not sure why I'm getting down votes on parent, but there it is.
- duaneb 10y agoPeople downvote the smallest things. I've found it's not as much of an obstacle to continuing the thread as you might think; certainly compared to, say, any moderately popular subreddit.
- Godel_unicode 10y agoI suspect it's your unequivocal use of the word "had". All we know for sure that they had was one unreplicatable experiment which has since been shown to be deeply flawed in both execution and observation.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoIt was a big scandal at the time (late 80s), and a cautionary tale shared quickly with us Utah phd students. Cold fusion is (or was) synonymous with research break throughs promoted too early that are later found to be BS.