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> I was struck by the viciousness of attacks against Fleischmann and Pons in the months after their cold fusion announcement. A few physicists even went out of
by Oletros 10y ago
> I was struck by the viciousness of attacks against Fleischmann and Pons in the months after their cold fusion announcement. A few physicists even went out of their way to call them frauds and charlatans -- it wasn't enough to say that Fleischmann and Pons were mistaken.
Perhaps it had a lot with the fact that they never allowed to perform independent measures and they never allowed to really perform the experiment in a controlled way.
- chopin 10y agoI am curious - do you have a citation for that? AFAIR they published their results. That leaves reproduction of the experiments open to everyone with a laboratory capable of doing so.
- Oletros 10y agoFor example, http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/0_0_0/cold_fusion_08 http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/0_0_0/cold_fusion_08 But I think my claim has more to do with Rossi's E-Cat than with the original P&F experiments