Sigh . . . Another ignorant article by Gibbs. Here is what I just wrote in the Forbes article comment section:
The author wrote: "Even so, the Defkalion tests were, as far as any cold fusion experiment performed to date has gone, the best so far and they were witnessed by someone who is, for want of a better description, a serious scientist." This statement is preposterous. Cold fusion has been replicated in hundreds of major laboratories, in thousands of test runs. Many of these runs were far better than the Defkalion tests witnessed by Nelson. Many of these other tests have been witnessed by world-class experts in calorimetry, such Robert Duncan of U. Missouri. This was shown in "60 Minutes." The Defkalion tests were not bad, but tests at SRI, Los Alamos, BARC, China Lake and other major laboratories used much better equipment and produced much larger signal to noise ratios. In some of these other tests the ratio of input to output was larger than Defkalion's, and in some there was no input, so the ratio was infinite. Hundreds of mainstream, peer-reviewed journal papers have been published describing experiments more convincing than the Defkalion tests. Gibbs is ignoring this peer-reviewed literature and looking instead at few preliminary documents published on the Internet. He is ignoring the gold standard of established science. - Jed
