[Wonder Warthog]

"Paper issued, meetings held, conferences and “in depth discussions”, all are considered great progress but still nothing of use even on the most distant horizon."

"Something of use" is irrelevant to scientific validity. But nice try at moving the goal posts.

"And it's chickens that roost, not ducks."

As a farm boy who has raised both, I can guarantee you that ducks do indeed "roost", as do geese, guinea fowl, etc.

[count-your-change]

“As a matter of research for its own sake, cold fusion passes the test,...”

I've changed no goal posts, and the phrase is still “chickens come home to roost”, not ducks.

[muawiyah]

Gee whiz, I raised both ~ and when it comes to ducks, I can quack and call them down out of the sky. And that is a most useful trick. One of my cousins (at several removes) can get wild ducks to jump up into his arms.

We both descend from a Great Great Great grandfather who carried his pet rooster with him during the Revolutionary War ~ one of Francis Marian's top three volunteers too ~ and went into every major battle in the Southern campaigns with that rooster. We think it has something to do with birds loving us. He and his father used to run a pheasant farm in Kansas/Nebraska, but gave it up when they moved to Oklahoma.