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III. Consequences and Outcomes
6. What are the costs to society?
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Millions of dollars lost in research trying to replicate the experiment
and results.
***Bowlsheet. The effect was replicated more than 14,000 times.
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In Search of Cold Fusion
It may be that some time in the future conclusive evidence is found for cold fusion and that Fleischmann and Pons did indeed capture a rare moment when the elusive phenomenon revealed itself. But until that time their names will be forever linked to what is referred to as pathological science, a process by which the researchers are tricked into witnessing the results they desperately want to see.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/8772196/In-search-of-cold-fusion
Science still haunted by Cold Fusion Fiasco
It is now more than 22 years since Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons announced they had achieved cold fusion. The announcement came before an independent laboratory had verified their results and subsequent tests failed to validate their claims. Having alerted the world’s media to a solution to the energy crisis and then having to backtrack left more than just Pons and Fleischmann with egg on their faces. It was an embarrassment to the scientific community and there has been a stigma attached to cold fusion ever since.
The University of Utah announced in 1998 that they would let the cold fusion patent lapse. Fleischmann and Pons remain adamant that their research was valid, though no one has been able to reproduce their findings. Whether Rossi will live to regret taking a similarly public route with his research remains to be seen but it will not have endeared him to his fellow scientists.
http://cold-fusion.ca/science-still-haunted-by-cold-fusion-fiasco-93000