I quite agree it is worth testing. If LENR turns out to exist, it would require us to reexamine our entire understanding of physics, and we might discover a lot of other valuable stuff as a result.
***The W-L theory doesn’t really require such an examination, it is almost completely conventional physics.
It’s especially worth testing because compared to high-energy physics research it is essentially free. You can’t do modern high-energy physics research without spending hundreds of millions to tens of billions of dollars.
***These are the things I’ve been saying about LENR but the anti-science LENR truther crowd is against even that. When the dust settles after these decades of chasing a hot fusion chimera, no doubt the truther crowd will be claiming they were pro-LENR & pro-science all along. It’s just human nature.
“These are the things I’ve been saying about LENR but the anti-science LENR truther crowd is against even that.”
I have to call shenanigans on that one. Nobody is raging against legitimate research, people have just been skeptical of unsubstantiated claims made by non-scientists with a long history of fraud, which you are fond of posting here.