[Wonder Warthog]

"Yep, sure have and found them rather useless theory and evidence of the authors opinions and speculations, not something I'm going to invest much of my time in. If they were truly “ground breaking” or actually explained the F-P phenomenon that might be worth the effort."

Hmmmm. Mind telling us which ones?? That certainly is not an accurate description of either Storms or Beaudette's books, which don't cover "theory" at all, but focus on experimental results.

"So read all the monographs and competing theories you wish but you'll have no better understanding of what the F-P effect than anyone else."

I don't read books on "theory", because theory is like assholes, everybody has one. I focus on experimental data, as that is what provides proof.

"I'm for certain not going to chase your “book of the moment”."

And thus remain ignorant. Willful ignorance = stupidity.

[count-your-change]

I've read Beaudette’s book and as the sub title would indicate he focus’ on the tug of war between skeptics and believers. nuclear physisicts and chemists.

He does a good job describing the mindsets of both and even tries to explain the many failed attempts to reproduce the early results of F-P by saying,

“The insistence that science requires a general reproducibility represents a kind of duck-pond thinking”.

The one criteria that imposes some discipline Beaudette dismisses as herd..flock? mentality.

If a person is looking for background information on lenr, canr, cold fusion that's not cold or fusion or whatever is the latest term, then his book is at least the equal of Wikipedia.

[count-your-change]

You can make whatever claims you wish, and I can buy whatever degree I want.

“And thus remain ignorant. Willful ignorance = stupidity.”

When the personal insults start I know the person making claims has recognized their failure. And I see no reason to respond further to such.