What went wrong with fusion theory?
The church of Physics and it's modern heretics... Cold Fusion.
I suppose no one is "innocent",
but these two fellows were sincere scientists
and their results were not a hoax or faked.
The major problem is that the smartest people in physics had put in
thirty years of very hard
and also very expensive work. The price of the Cold Fusion set up was in
the thousands of dollars
not billions as the current science community is spending.
What went wrong with the late 1950's fusion theory?
After the fusion bomb went off in the South Pacific
everything has been negative results.
No break even containment has yet been achieved.
So you have rich and powerful physics against
two outsider electro-chemists.
They were literally squashed like bugs by the establishment
and the papers that did it openly cheated their statistics.
It wasn't fusion, probably, but something happened that
modern physics had no explanation for,
so it was made to go away...
A "pure religious" reaction
and not a scientific one.
It is two failures for the American Physics community:
1) failure to get fusion as predicted
2) failure to allow free research on alternatives
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0162-2439%28199422%2919%3A3%3C283%3AEENNEO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L&size=LARGE
Exclusionary Epideictic: NOVA's Narrative Excommunication of Fleischmann
and Pons
Dale L. Sullivan
Science, Technology, & Human Values, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Summer, 1994), pp.
283-306
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