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Pity you used such a bad example for pathological science.LENR aka cold fusion is alive and well, so you are completely wrong about that.
Industrial Heat LLC has built a commercial 1 MW LENR thermal plant that according to Norway’s largest newspaper Aftenposten has been working well.Consisting of four 250 kW E-Cats It has been operating for nine months as part of a one year trial.The results will be published in Feb/Mar 2016.Andrea Rossi has also developed a high temperature E-Cat X, that operates at over 1000C, that is now in early trials.Industrial Heat is now funded with $59 million.See www.lenrproof.com
Even the original Fleischmann and Pons experiment has since been duplicated.It is now known that the hot fusion scientists, who attempted the earlier failed replications, did not load the Palladium sufficiently with Deuterium for the process to work.
To me, the greater danger is group-think.It shows not only with the academic response to LENR and by their unquestioning acceptance a AGW.Judging from the ~19 years of no warming shown by satellite temperature measurements the effect of CO2 has been exaggerated and the science certainly is not "settled."
http://today.ucf.edu/toward-a-more-scientifically-literate-public/
