You’re right. We have been told over and over for years that low energy nuclear reactions(cold fusion)were not possible. Careers have been destoyed for just saying maybe it is possible so if it turns out to be true all these scientists who called it sci fi dreams should be fired. And I mean every one of them. Clean out all the colleges and labs and start over with people who have open minds.
Science doesn’t work that way.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Planck
Max Planck:
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Wissenschaftliche Selbstbiographie. Mit einem Bildnis und der von Max von Laue gehaltenen Traueransprache., Johann Ambrosius Barth Verlag, (Leipzig 1948), p. 22, as translated in Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, trans. F. Gaynor (New York, 1949), pp.33-34 (as cited in T.S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions).
Paraphrased variants:
Die Wahrheit triumphiert nie, ihre Gegner sterben nur aus. Truth never triumphs — its opponents just die out.
Science advances one funeral at a time.