Absolutely not in my head, the contradictions lies in your head. As my references show, your opinion is contrary to the general thinking that currently exists in the LENR community. You definitely hold an outlier view.
Not at all. Your references only show the relaxed use of language within a journalistic framework. You are confusing the replication of an effect -which is supportive evidence perhaps, with the replication of an experiment which entails copying all details as closely as possible. They are two entirely different things