Look, the claim is not that there are some hard to detect and explain anomalous effects being found.
***That is exactly the claim behind LENR. This article itself is just the latest in a series of articles on LENR on FR.
If this article were the magic bullet which proves or disproves the W-L theory, then I’d be pushing hard to have it tested. But W-L would just wiggle away with word salad and weaseling techniques if it turned out that CFLs did not have tiny LENR reactions. That likelihood is about 95% in my estimation.
But what if someone went to the trouble of testing this assertion and it turned out to be the ‘proof’ that skeptics have demanded for LENR all along? It is worth testing the assertion of this article.
I quite agree it is worth testing. If LENR turns out to exist, it would require us to reexamine our entire understanding of physics, and we might discover a lot of other valuable stuff as a result.
It’s especially worth testing because compared to high-energy physics research it is essentially free.
You can’t do modern high-energy physics research without spending hundreds of millions to tens of billions of dollars.