I personally know a first-rate researcher who was tasked with determining the validity (or not) of Cold Fusion claims at a well-known and respected laboratory. He found absolutely nothing after spending considerable time and resources. He gave me a brief review of the claims and his work, and I'm convinced he is right. Most (by far) mainstream physicists agree with his side of the argument.
Now if you're talking about controlled fusion using lasers etc., that's another topic and in line with accepted knowledge of nuclear reactions. I'm talking about "Cold Fusion in a Jar" as first proposed by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons.
If you want to read more about this, try the following link:
Scientific American Comments
And let's keep the personal stuff like crawling under rocks out of it, OK? This is just a scientific discussion.
I checked your resume. You are smart enough that you
should have checked this out yourself, rather than rely on
those who apparently dont know anything about it.
I apologize for mentioning a rock, but if I had used the ostrich metaphor
the intellectual half of PETA might have gotten upset.