Akito Takahashi is the first to admit his and his researchers' debt to Fleischmann and Pons.
Not to mention Arata (a skeptic) replicated FP's in 1990, and just recently (2017) Beiting of Aerospace One Corp. replicated Arata. Hard to believe Ascoli's assertion that FP's were wrong, when you see they spawned these successful replications by so many well qualified researchers.