[Wonder Warthog]

"My point is going from using heavy water as a deuterium source to using deuterium gas as a deuterium source takes very little in the way of innovative thought. Anybody with half a brain could do it, but apparently that’s above your level."

Your "point" is, as usual, blunt. "If" the NASA work had actually been published, instead of being shelved into obscurity in the bowels of "papers nobody looks at", the connection would have been made much sooner. "My" point isn't the use of gas-loading of D2, but in the use of the widely commercially available palladium purifier as a research tool into the phenomenon....a mode of experiment that apparently "was" overlooked by pretty much everybody. This easy commercial availability of an "off the shelf" research tool would have accelerated the replication by many years.

[Moonman62]

Anybody with access to a research library could have found the unclassified NASA technical memo. Even if they didn't many researches had access to the materials and tools to do the experiment. And the concept itself is "supremely simple" to use your own words.

The only conclusion that can be made is that cold fusion investigators are poor researchers, lazy, and not too bright. The bad reputation of the cold fusion field is self inflicted.