It has never been anybody's view, to my knowledge, that cold fusion was a hoax. There is a prevalent view that the scientists were wrong, but I was not aware o

It has never been anybody's view, to my knowledge, that cold fusion was a hoax. There is a prevalent view that the scientists were wrong, but I was not aware of anybody that seriously proposed that they deliberately tried to fool people. It was not a hoax. It may have been an example of bad science, not by Pons and Fleischmann, but by the community at large. That these men were ridiculed for the audacity of publishing something that may have turned out to be wrong, does nothing but damage to human progress.