But if you look at a monkey with a prehensile tail, how many usable limbs does he have? Does he have a competitive advantage compared to a monkey with one less articulated limb? Probably.
So, your analogy falls flat.
The main reason to let it be a chemical reaction is to see what happened to Pons & Fleischmann when they said they thought it was a nuclear reaction. They were shouted out of town.
On this we will have to disagree. Rossi calling his reaction "chemical" may serve some purpose but it does not make a nuclear reaction into a chemical reaction.
The world is so hungry for inexpensive, limitless sources of energy that we now have mountain ridges, once thought too pristine to permit housing, populated with giant windmills, many of which sit idle.
I'm sure that there are those who believe that there is some conspiracy of energy producers to keep effective windmill designs from reaching the market. I'm not one of them.
My recollection was that Rossi was to deliver a 1 Mw system to an American company by the end of October. As far as I can tell, that didn't happen.
But your famed Nobel prize winner and homeopathic medicine expert has already declared it to be nuclear.