After the huge scandal in the 80's, it's very much looked down on. It's worth noting that this "article" is a forum posting of what I think is a press release?

After the huge scandal in the 80's, it's very much looked down on. It's worth noting that this "article" is a forum posting of what I think is a press release? That's not exactly reliable... On the original cold fusion, from wikipedia: Hopes faded due to the large number of negative replications, the withdrawal of many reported positive replications, the discovery of flaws and sources of experimental error in the original experiment, and finally the discovery that Fleischmann and Pons had not actually detected nuclear reaction byproducts.[5] By late 1989, most scientists considered cold fusion claims dead,[6][7] and cold fusion subsequently gained a reputation as pathological science