I agree with this analysis. Some of Abd's fond hopes will not be realized. Trying to get cold fusion researchers to cooperate is like herding cats.
I think Abd exaggerates the extent to which helium correlated with heat gave a firm foundation to the claims. I think the claims were conclusively established before helium results emerged. I think tritium is actually better proof of a nuclear reaction because it is so easy to measure. It does not seem to correlate with anything else. Expert such as Gerischer who looked at the data carefully in 1991 had no doubt whatever that the effect is real. Gerischer noted that helium had recently been reported but he had no firm data yet, and he did not say his belief was conditional upon helium results. See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/GerischerHiscoldfusi.pdf - Jed
