[aruanan]

a group of Utah researchers scandalised the scientific world with claims - quickly found to be unsupported - that the long-sought answer to the problem of Cold Fusion had been discovered.

The underlined is contrary to fact. Excess energy has been replicated in labs all over the world. It's apparently not fusion, but it is some kind of nuclear reaction.

[Doctor Stochastic]

It's not nuclear. There's no there there. Excess heat is in all cases an artifact of measurement. Admittedly, the measurents are hard to do correctly.