Just for fun;
It may eventually come to light that the damage from the Taubes' Science article suppressed the truth of cold fusion and delayed its progress. If cold fusion does, in fact, turn out to be a significant answer to the world's energy problems, then the delay in recognizing tritium as nuclear evidence of cold fusion will be considered highly unfortunate.
Mike Epstein, an assistant professor in the department of science at Mount Saint Mary's College, adapted the Lizzie Borden playground song to express his views of this regrettable chapter in scientific journalism:
Gary Taubes took an axe
Gave Pons and Fleischmann forty whacks
And when he saw what he had done
He gave John Bockris forty-one. [37]
New Energy Times - Tritium Discovered by Bockris at Texas A&M
FUN READ:
http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BarnhartBtechnology.pdf Quote: At the March 2009 American Chemical Society annual meeting, researchers at U.S.
Navy SPAWAR Pacific reported excess energy, nuclear particles, and
transmutation, stating that these effects were probably the result of nuclear
reactions.
http://www.avonhistory.org/mil3/lenr9.htm
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