27th
Cold Fusion’s Got Some ‘Splainin’ To Do….
Cold Fusion was easily dismissed as “non-science” by anyone who read the original papers from Pons & Fleischman… I took a class in college that went over the journal submissions, demonstrating “what not to do” in science. Mocking other chemists is a widespread hobby among the chemical sciences.
However, Cold Fusion is making a comeback now. But it’s more focused on nailing down how “excess heat” can be observed from various calorimetry experiments. There also seem to be some researchers looking into “low energy” nuclear chemistry, but I’m skeptical about what they’re really looking at… I think they’re mostly trying to get funding for doing research that has a world-changing impact but a vanishingly low probability of working… It’s like “placebo” science — it might make someone feel better, but the effects are all in someone’s interpretation.
