See: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=when-scientists-sin
"David Goodstein in his new bookOn Fact and Fraud . . . Other cases are not so clear. Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons’s “discovery” of cold fusion, Goodstein concludes, was most likely a case of scientists who “convince themselves that they are in the possession of knowledge that does not in fact exist.” This self-deception is distinctly different from deliberate deception." - Jed
