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The Taleyarkhan (Purdue) / Putterman (UCLA) / Suslick (UIUC)
Bubble Fusion Controversy
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Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC), Chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology’s
Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight Takes Aim at Taleyarkhan and Purdue
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Nature, May 15, 2007
Third Inquiry Into Bubble Fusion Is Under Way
May 12, 2007
Communication from Richard Lahey to Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature
New York Times, May 11, 2007
Purdue Will Reinvestigate Its Professor Who Claimed Desktop Fusion
May 11, 2007
Press Release from Miller
May 10, 2007
Communication between Kenneth Chang of The New York Times and Rusi Taleyarkhan
May 10, 2007
Purdue Press Release
May 9, 2007
Letter from Miller to Purdue President Jischke
May 7, 2007
Miller Committee Report
March 22, 2007
Press Release from Congressman Brad Miller
March 21, 2007
Letter from Miller to Purdue President Jischke
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Purdue Takes Aim at the Times and Nature
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March 9, 2007
Letter to the Editor of the New York Times (as yet unpublished)
March 9, 2007
Letter to the Editor of Nature (as yet unpublished)
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Second Purdue Investigation and Related Events
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New Scientist, February 17, 2007
Table-top Fusion, Back With a Pop
Nature, Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Disputed Inquiry Clears Bubble-Fusion Engineer
The New York Times, Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Researcher Cleared of Misconduct, but Case Is Still Murky
IEEE Spectrum, Friday, February 9, 2007
Purdue Inquiry Clears Bubble Fusion Researcher
Associated Press, Friday, February 9, 2007
Panel Clears Nuclear Engineer
The Chicago Tribune, Friday, February 9, 2007
Tabletop Fusion Claims Ignite a Furor at Purdue
ScienceNOW Daily News, Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Second Inquiry Exonerates Taleyarkhan
Purdue News Service, Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Purdue Integrity Panel Completes Research Inquiry
Dec. 15, 2006
Purdue completes second investigation (not reported until Feb. 7, 2007)
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First Purdue Investigation and Related Events
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Nature, Dec. 7, 2006
Purdue Attacked Over Fusion Inquiry (by Tsoukalas and Suslick by way of Reich)
New Energy Times, Oct. 16, 2006
Purdue University's Tsoukalas Resigns
New Energy Times, Sept. 10, 2006
Bubble Fusion Discoverer Taleyarkhan Strikes Back
Brian Josephson, Cambridge University, July 30, 2006
Reich or Wrong? Nature on the Attack
IEEE Spectrum, June 30, 2006
For the Record
Nature, July 20, 2006
Concerns Grow Over Secrecy of Bubble-Fusion Inquiry
Purdue News Service, June 20, 2006
Sonofusion Research Examination Committee Completes First Investigation
Nature, May 10, 2006
Bubble-fusion group suffer setback
IEEE Spectrum, May 6, 2006
Bubble Fusion Research Under Scrutiny: Purdue University Scientist Stands By His Findings
New Energy Times, March 10
On Science, Journalism, and Nature
Telepolis, July 18, 2005
Bubble Fusion Takes Next Hurdle
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The Purdue Bubble Fusion Controversy Story Breaks
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The New York Times breaks a preview of the story on March 8, 2006, approx 1:00a.m. (The Times had received an advance copy of the Nature story but was unable to reference the Nature article because of an embargo on the story.)
University to Investigate Fusion Study
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/08/science/08fusion.html
Nature publishes the full story -- a 4-part series, a few hours later.
A sound investment?
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060306/full/060306-4.html
http://newenergytimes.com/Inthenews/2006/NATUREBubbleFusionPatent.htm
Bubble fusion: silencing the hype
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060306/full/060306-1.html
http://newenergytimes.com/Inthenews/2006/NATURESilencingTheHype.htm
Is bubble fusion simply hot air?
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060306/full/060306-2.html
http://newenergytimes.com/Inthenews/2006/NATUREBubbleFusionSimplyHotAir.htm
Bubble bursts for table-top fusion
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060306/full/060306-3.html
http://newenergytimes.com/Inthenews/2006/NATUREBubbleBursts.htm
Reuters runs this erroneous lead one hour later, based on the Nature story, and starts to call it cold fusion in the story subtitle.
University checks "bubble fusion" fraud claim
Reuters story
CNN repackages the same Reuters story and calls it cold fusion in the story title two hours later.
Purdue probes 'cold fusion' fraud claim
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/03/08/fusion.probe.reut/
UPI picked up the story, apparently based off the NYT story four hours later.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060308-112608-2313r
Purdue investigates professor's research
AP does their own original reporting, their story runs three hours later.
Purdue probes 'tabletop fusion' study
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/health/14050194.htm
By midnight, Google News reported that this story had appeared in 54 news outlets. Based on a cursory analysis, only four outlets appear to have performed original reporting on this story and everyone else is ripping and reading it. Two of the three wire services apparently did not do original reporting.
DAY 2, March 9, 2006
Washington Post 1:00a.m.
Tabletop Fusion Research Under Review
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/08/AR2006030802052.html
NYT does follow-up story 1:00a.m.
Scientist Says He Stands by Fusion Data
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/09/science/09fusion.html
LA Times publishes several direct and indirect allegations from Suslick and Putterman of Purdue fraud. 1:00a.m.
College Reviews Physicist's Tabletop Fusion Claims
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-sci-fusion9mar09,1,2142402.story?coll=la-news-a_section
http://newenergytimes.com/Inthenews/2006/LATIMESCollegeReviewsPhysicistsTabletop.htm
Indianapolis Star 1:00a.m.
Purdue scientist is under scrutiny
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060309/NEWS01/603090431/1006/NEWS01
Boston Globe reprints Reuters story, reuses CNN title 1:00a.m.
Purdue investigates scientist over 'cold fusion' claims
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/03/09/purdue_investigates_scientist_over_cold_fusion_claims/
Google News reported a total of 67 articles on this story at the end of day two, mostly reprints of the wire service articles.
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