Eric,
Your comment about the claim being less than conclusive seems to me to be more related to the level of funding LENR has been able to achieve than the weakness of the supporting data.
If the LENR world was a well funded research program then I would expect the effort to find the D=D He connection to be much better researched and documented. As I understand it that is expensive and somewhat difficult to accomplish so those with limited budgets, which the most of the research going on, focus on other aspects.
Tom Carey