[JasonC]

That there is any excess heat production. The truth about empirical measurements of statistical constructs is that in any moderate sized set of cases, outliers are expected, following definite statistical laws as to frequency and subset mean - without rejection of the null hypothesis by the ordinary rules of statistical inference.

[Diogenesis]

Cold fusion is real despite your handwaving.
McKubre (the only data sets discussed in the article)
has yet to give public demonstrations as others have,
probably because his system is neither the most robust
and certainly not the most reproducible.
As for the theories, they are numerous
-- and will be sorted out in time by experimental tests.

[syriacus]

Thanks for the explanation.