FURTHERMORE, the notion that cold fusion results are unconvincing or close to the noise is also gross ignorance. People who say this know nothing about experimental significance.
The tritium findings alone are definitive. After Storms, Bockris and Will published in 1989 and 1990, all doubts about the existence of cold fusion were erased. Any scientist who questions this either knows nothing about the results, or he is an ignorant fool such as Taubes or Huizenga. This is like questioning the existence of radioactivity or X-rays in 1900. After Fleischmann and McKubre published their calorimetric data, all doubts about the excess heat were put to rest. If you think it might be chemical, the way D. Morrison did, you are innumerate. You do not appreciate the difference between 1 and 1,700 (the factor by which Fleischmann's results exceed the limits of chemistry). I assert categorically: anyone who questioned these things after 1990 is either irrational or an ignorant fool. I do not care how many scientists say they "doubt" these findings. I do not care whether these scientists are distinguished leaders such as Steven Chu. They may be objective scientists regarding their own areas of expertise, but if they reject the tritium findings or calorimetry, then with regard to this particular subject, they are flat-out ignorant, wrong, idiotic and as misguided as the worst faith-healing creationist nitwit in Georgia. People are often right about one thing but wrong about another. Or objective and careful about one subject, and bigoted fools about another. The human mind is not uniform or consistent. - Jed
