Unlike Abd, I did not propose to taken on Cude, and I still do not.
I will say, however, that his views seem to boil down to an assertion that conventional instruments and techniques do not work. Calorimetry and x-ray film do not work. Replications by hundreds of researchers mean nothing. The experimental method itself does not work.
This seems unlikely. As I have often said, if that were true, we would still be living in caves.
His attitude reminds me of the global warming deniers'. Those deniers are more on solid ground that Cude is, because climate simulation on computers is inherently more nebulous and open to question than, say, measuring 100 W of heat output with no input, in a heat after death boil-off.
I do not doubt global warming is real. I assume the experts are correct and it is caused by CO2. I cannot judge the issue myself, but in my experience, expert scientists are usually right. But those climate researchers cannot do a simple, 19th century test-tube experiments to prove they are right, whereas cold fusion researchers can. A climate researcher cannot take put an entire planet into a test tube and subject it to several centuries of increased CO2 concentration to see what happens. So their results will never be as compelling as Fleischmann's were in 1992.
- Jed
