Display MoreI totally agree on this. The very low level of scientific consensus towards CF/LENR cannot be considered a sufficient reason to deny its reality.
However, a much simpler reason to deny the existence of CF/LENR is that all its major supporters and researchers state with absolute certainty that the two pioneers of the field were right in reporting the results of their experiments. This is demonstrably wrong. F&P made huge errors. Errors that no LENR believer is willing to admit. This is the real reason that has allowed a worldwide research on an impossible phenomena to last for 30 years.
An example of this fact is provided by one of the most renowned researcher in the field in a recent interview.
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This is the transcription of his words at the beginning of the video:
Intanto una premessa, presentazione.
Io lavoro in questo campo cosiddetto, anche in maniera non completa, fusione fredda da 30 anni, dall'inizio. E ho iniziato questo tipo di lavoro per trovare un qualche errore sugli esperimenti fatti 30 anni fa dai professori Fleischmann e Pons. Errori veri non ne ho trovati, altrimenti non avrei continuato, ma ho visto che il fenomeno è estremamente difficile da riprodurre. Quindi difficile è una cosa, impossibile un'altra.
Io e tante altre persone nel mondo, siamo una comunità di molte migliaia di persone, in particolare giapponesi, americani, russi, cinesi, indiani, francesi, sono 30 anni che cercano di aumentare la riproducibilità delle stranezze che a volte avvengono quando l'idrogeno o il deuterio, che è un isotopo dell'idrogeno (non è radioattivo), viene messo dentro speciali metalli …
He said that it he wouldn't have continued to work on CF if he found errors in the initial F&P experiments. Probably, this reason also applies to many others of the thousands CF researchers (Japanese, Americans, Russian, etc.) that he mentioned. But in reality, F&P were wrong. Therefore, the entire CF history is based on their errors, on their refusal to admit them and on the incapacity of the whole scientific community (both CF and mainstream) to detect this true errors and to correctly highlight them to the public.
Incorrect, because not all claimed "cold fusion", LENR, or intense hydrogen reactions are similar apparatus compared to F&P experiments. What about plasma based systems with self organization or a more explosive release? I am not saying that I am 100% sure of this, I'm saying you're too quick to dismiss a whole category of potential energy sources based on a "foundation" of two researchers. The explanations and potencial theories have changed and increased in detail since.