[Kevmo]

Pinging my favorite technofreepers; I thought you might like this article.

[Kevmo]

It seems that the Cold Fusion storms of controversy are simply part of a time-honored tradition of scientists shouting down dissidents.

The Cold Fusion Scandal

Such misrepresentation and falsification of evidence happened after Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman (5) announced in March 1989 that they had achieved fusion by electrochemical means. Several influential US laboratories (Caltech(6), MIT (7), Yale/Brookhaven (8)) reported negative results on Cold Fusion that were based on shoddy experimental work and a misunderstanding of the Pons-Fleischmann claims (9). They gave a hostile hot fusion establishment the excuse it needed to conclude that the claims made by Pons and Fleischmann were bogus. In November 1989, a DOE panel concluded the same after a shallow investigation of only seven month (10).

The late Eugene F. Mallove, who was the Chief Science Writer at the MIT News Office at the time and later founded Infinite Energy, a journal dedicated to covering potential new energy sources ignored by mainstream science, played a part in exposing the MIT report as mistaken, possibly fraudulent (11), and resigned in protest over it in 1991.

[grey_whiskers]

Ha! I found it all on my own even without being invited. :-)

Cheers!

[Alamo-Girl]

Indeed. Thanks for the ping!

[betty boop]

The current consensus view of physical reality which is based on relativity, quantum mechanics and big bang cosmology may turn out to be more social construct than eternal truth.

That seems a definite possibility.

Thanks for the ping to a great article, Kevmo!