“What was their experimental setup and did they report the results?”
I was commenting on your statement about attitudes. I wasn’t involved in the actual setups. There were no results to report. They could not duplicate.
The lack of publication is unfortunate as even negative results should be reported. Some experimenters who did publish negative results were faulted for not duplicating the Pons and Fleischman apparatus. Might your colleagues have been put off by the risk of similar criticism?