Jed....
Wow.... breathtaking amount of dialogue and work you did there....a noble
effort.
I think the whole essence of it is as you say here:
"I think the problem is that the skeptics are stuck in a time warp in May
1989. They are obsessed with trivial details such as what Pons said to
Triggs. They cite only haphazard half-baked evaluations made of cold fusion
at that time and they ignore all of the other evidence that has been
published since then."
It would seem to me, that if a man does not want to accept something new,
he can find an infinite number of ways to remain fixed in his opinion.
Someday these Wiki-skeptics are going to have a rude awakening.
S