I wanted to believe in the 70’s and still do.
***I didn’t hear a lick about cold fusion until 1989 when Pons & Fleischmann made their announcement.
There is much stronger evidence than that for aliens (BH0 excluded).
***I agree. I’ve logged onto some of those alien threads and debated freepers. There’s no troll brigade decrying how ridiculous those threads make FR look, and those extraterrestrial believers make FR look far loopier than any cold fusion thread.
This would explain why the CF effect was seen in the nearby UU labs.