The problem is that the American Academy of Science and most scientific organizations would follow the established 'party-line'.
Contrary to what you seem to think, the scientific community is not the Republican party and does not blindly follow orders from anyone. There is significant resistance to theories which challenge the currently accepted thought, but if these theories are good they will eventually pass muster. That's the way it works. Good science will eventually triumph because it is supported by real evidence.
Although there is still debate about whether this is fusion or not, there have been quite a few, repeatable, experiments which result in more energy coming out of the experiment than was put in.
I would be VERY skeptical about anyone trying to claim cold fusion. It is incredibly hard to get two protons close enough together to fuse, and the only way that's been tried with any success that I know of is incredibly high temperatures. The results you speak of are most likely someone thinking they see something that isn't really there, like those guys in Utah, though it's hard to tell without looking at the articles.
So, Mike, what color is an electron?
Better to ask, what color is quark? Or even what flavor! God I love Quantum Mechanics. Thanks for explaning things to mikegi. I may try my own hand at explaining the EPR paradox soon, but I have to go do productive things now.
EXACTLY RIGHT. *MUCH* of the scientific community is like the DEMOCRATIC party, with an explicit, and implicit, agenda, which tends to foster the theories currently in vogue. If you try to promote an idea which is contrary to the prevailing "world view" of the elder scientists...
you simply WILL NOT GET TENURE and WILL NOT PUBLISH.
this ends up working on scientists as a whole the same way it works on faculty who do not tow the PC line on feminism, race, the environment, you get the picture.
now it so happens that i believe there is a *LOT* of bologna and junk science out there, but I assure you many of the future breakthroughs in science are waiting there in the junkyard for someone to understand and develop them...