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NNadir

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7. Martin Fleischmann was a very respected electrochemist.

Reply to Mr. Sparkle (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2026, 04:12 PM

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When cold fusion was announced I asked myself how it could have been missed with all the experiments conducted involving the well known diffusion of hydrogen through palladium. Why, I asked myself, were people never killed by neutrons during these experiments?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

Stanley Pons career was wrecked by putting media announcements in front of the harder routes of scientific communication.

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