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Basics Facts and the Controversy |
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION The Cold Fusion Short Story: A brief explanation of the cold fusion controversy |
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION The Real Cold Fusion Problem: A detailed article explaining the full spectrum of the cold fusion controversy |
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Background to Cold Fusion: the Genesis of a Concept: Martin Fleischmann's explanation about the research which led to the start-up of the project known as “cold fusion.” |
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The Fleischmann-Pons Cold Fusion Method: Physical explanation, diagrams and photos of original experiment |
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2. |
Critique |
| 2.1 |
A Critical Evaluation of the Pons-Fleischmann Effect: Critique of calorimetry and possible experimental errors, reasons for success and failure (pdf) |
| 2.2 |
Cold Fusion: An Objective Assessment: Review of the methods, reproducibility issues, prosaic errors, claimed nuclear products and anomalous energy |
| 2.3 |
The Mistakes of Fleischmann and Pons
and Why Their Discovery Was Initially Thought to Be a Mistake - The first few days |
| 2.4 |
MIT's Allegations of Fraud: Discussion, news story, tape recordings regarding disputed Fleischmann-Pons gamma ray spectrum. |
| 2.5 |
The News Heard 'Round the World: Why the public came to think that cold fusion had been debunked |
| 2.6 |
Understanding the Initial Reaction to the Cold Fusion Discovery: An in-depth review of the response from the science community - the first few months |
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3. |
Historical Evidence |
| 3.1 |
The Seminal Papers of "Cold Fusion," the Precursor to Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions |
| 3.2 |
Historical Analysis of Key "Cold Fusion" Experiments: False negatives and unknown positives |
| 3.3 |
Validation of Excess Power Observations by Independent Laboratories: Early evidence of a new potential source of energy |
| 3.4 |
Groups Reporting LENR Evidence: By 1990, many dozens of researchers had reported evidence of LENRs |
| 3.5 |
U.S. Navy Reports Confirming Evidence of LENR |
| 3.6 |
November 2003 Review of a few Low Energy Nuclear Reaction Papers: Papers showing helium-4 and heat correlations, nuclear transmutations, charged particle emissions and tritium evolution |
| 3.7 |
Papers Showing Evidence of Excess Heat and Nuclear Product Correlation |
| 3.8 |
Low Energy Nuclear Reaction Papers Published In Peer-Review Journals -
Survey performed in 2005 |
| 3.9 |
Amoco Production Company - Shell Research - Oil company confirmations of excess heat |
| 3.10 |
Garwin and Lewis Audit at SRI International - JASONS/Pentagon confirmation of excess heat |
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4. |
The University of Utah Fusion Press Conference and Related Events |
| 4.1 |
The Steven E. Jones Conflict - (Jones' APS Vote Against F&P) |
| 4.2 |
Images of the Original Fleischmann-Pons Paper |
| 4.3 |
March 1989 University of Utah N-Fusion Press Release |
| 4.4 |
March 23, 1989 University of Utah N-Fusion Press Conference Videotape |
| 4.5 |
March 23, 1989 University of Utah N-Fusion Press Conference Audiotape |
| 4.6 |
March 23, 1989 University of Utah N-Fusion Press Conference Transcript |
| 4.7 |
March 23, 1989 University of Utah N-Fusion Press Conference Images: Screenshots captured from videotape |
| 4.8 |
The Five Press Conferences of Cold Fusion: Commentary on the famous and infamous press conferences and the allegations of secrecy |
| 4.9 |
Background to University of Utah Press Conference: Chase Peterson's explanation about the events leading up to the March 23, 1989 press conference, his response/corrections to "The Rebirth of Cold Fusion." |
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Events During The First Month of "Cold Fusion" |
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| 6. |
American Physical Society Meeting |
| 6.1 |
American Physical Society Abstracts - Special Sessions on Cold Fusion
1-2 May 1989, Baltimore, Maryland |
| 6.2 |
American Physical Society Press Release - Press Release to Special Sessions on Cold Fusion 1-2 May 1989, Baltimore, Maryland |
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Electrochemical Society Meeting |
| 7.1 |
The Electrochemical Society Special Session on Cold Fusion |
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8. |
Science Philosophy and Science Journalism |
| 8.1 |
The Scientific Method |
| 8.2 |
Fear Within the Institution: The matter of institutional incoherence and its impact on the recognition of the cold fusion field |
| 8.3 |
On The Question of Scientific Proof: The desire for an irrefutable experiment and the strict criterion demanded by the nuclear physics establishment |
| 8.4 |
Controversy in Chemistry: How Do You Prove a Negative?: A key aspect of the cold fusion controversy |
| 8.5 |
Jerry Bishop, The First Cold Fusion Journalist: The physics establishment's treatment of the first journalist to look seriously at the cold fusion claims in 1989 |
| 8.6 |
Science Reporting and Getting it Right: Cautionary advice from cold fusion author and investigator Charles Beaudette |
| 8.7 |
Nature: Consensus On Cold Fusion Still Elusive, by Richard Garwin |
| 8.8 |
Nature: The Embarrassment of Cold Fusion, by Lindley, David |
| 8.9 |
Nature: Farewell (not fond) to cold fusion, by Sir John Maddox |
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9. |
Tritium Discovery and Controversy at Texas A&M |
| 9.1 |
University of Washington Team Confirms Nuclear Process, Tritium Found (oops, the Times missed the real story) |
| 9.2 |
Tritium Discovered by Bockris at Texas A&M: Excerpt from The Rebirth of Cold Fusion Real Science, Real Hope, Real Energy,
by Steven B. Krivit and Nadine Winocur, Psy.D. (pdf)
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| 9.3 |
Bockris' Letter to Taubes, March 19, 1990: Bockris lays out the facts to Taubes before Taubes publishes Science article (pdf) |
| 9.4 |
Science Media Advisory, June 13, 1990: Science issues press release announcing their forthcoming story by Gary Taubes (pdf) |
| 9.5 |
Science: Cold Fusion Conundrum at Texas A&M, June 15, 1990: The unfortunate science story written by Gary Taubes and published by Science (pdf) |
| 9.6 |
Edmund Storms' Letter to Science, June 25, 1990: Unpublished in Science to date (pdf) |
| 9.7 |
Bockris' Letter to Science, June 29, 1990: Unpublished in Science to date (pdf) |
| 9.8 |
Bockris' Note Concerning an Article by Taubes Which Was Published in Science: "So much then for the spiking. It didn't occur." (pdf) |
| 9.9 |
Bockris' Answer to an Assault on Legitimate Research , & Suggestions of Fraud, in an Article Published in Science, July 9, 1990: The complete retrospective, as written by John Bockris(pdf) |
| 9.10 |
Accountability and Academic Freedom: The Battle Concerning Research on Cold Fusion at Texas A&M University, by John Bockris (pdf) |
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| 10. |
Changing Perspectives |
| 10.1 |
The 2005 Gluck-Krivit Cold Fusion Survey |
| 10.2 |
Bob Park, former spokesperson for the American Physical Society |
