And who has been paying him? From wikipedia: Muon-catalyzed fusion[edit]
In the mid-1980s, Jones and other BYU scientists worked on what he referred to as Cold Nuclear Fusion in aScientific American article (the process is currently known as muon-catalyzed fusion to avoid confusion with the cold fusion concept proposed by Pons and Fleischman). Muon-catalyzed fusion was a field of some interest during the 1980s as a potential energy source; however, its low energy output appears to be unavoidable (because of alpha-muon sticking losses). Jones led a research team that, in 1986, achieved 150 fusions per muon (average), releasing over 2,600 MeV of fusion energy per muon, a record which still stands.[15] Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann (Pons and Fleischmann or P&F) commenced their work at approximately the same time. Jones became aware of their work when they applied for research funding from the Department of Energy (DOE), after which the DOE forwarded their proposal to Jones for peer review. When Jones realized that their work was similar, he and P&F agreed to release their papers to Nature on the same day (March 24, 1989). However, P&F announced their results at a press event the day before. Jones faxed his paper to Nature.[16] A New York Times article says that although peer reviewers were harshly critical of P&F's research, they did not apply such criticism to Jones' significantly more modest, theoretically supported findings. Although critics insisted that Jones's results were probably caused by experimental error,[17] the majority of the reviewing physicists claimed that he was a careful scientist. Later research and experiments have supported Jones' metallic "cold fusion" reports.[18]
