Wednesday, April 27, 2005

So were Pons & Flieschman right, or what?

Link is to New Scientist story, (taken from Nature, apparently) whose headline blithely reads "Tabletop Fusion Demonstrated." The article takes great pains, it seems to us, to avoid mentioning Pons & Flieschman, the real discoverers of the effect (a similar one anyway) of cold fusion. And EVERYBODY tried to shoot them down on the grounds that it COULDN'T be real.So to report some few years later with a yawn that the impossible effect has been demonstrated seems pretty outrageous to us, especially if you're not even going to mention the original cold fusion fiasco out of embarrassment for your own complicity. That headline should read, "Nothing to See Here, We're Going to Dress This Up As A Completely Different Effect and Pretend that We Still Win."

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