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TLDR; In 1989 couple of scientist claimed success in cold fusion and tried publishing paper in Nature. No one can reproduce the experiments so Nature didn't pub
by sytelus 7y ago
TLDR; In 1989 couple of scientist claimed success in cold fusion and tried publishing paper in Nature. No one can reproduce the experiments so Nature didn't published and authors withdrew paper anyway. In coming years, those scientists tried suing and name calling instead of accepting that they were wrong.
There is nothing insightful in this article apart from above tldr.
- mannykannot 7y ago"We should not too quickly judge, and thereby alienate, scientists who make controversial claims." Once Pons and Fleischman doubled-down on their position, they became their own worst enemies, but is seemed to me that they were initially just naive about the reception such an announcement would get. This was not a Rossi-style scam, or something that could have harmful consequences in the way that, for example, anti-vaccination pseudo-science does.