Ummmm, NASA is also big on believing in man made global warming. Just sayin’.....
***You’re quite right. They go for the politically correct course of action most of the time. And with LENR, they’re doing exactly that, by going in hard for the Widom-Larson theory. The W-L theory is among the weakest LENR theories but it is attractive because they claim it is NOT cold fusion. However, once you scratch the surface you see 2 hydrogen atoms going through lots of rigamarole due to the weak nuclear force and, in the end, being fused together. I call it Roundabout Cold Fusion.
Rigmarole according to the dictionary is confused and meaningless talk, an appropriate word for cold fusion.