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Is There More to Cold Fusion Than Failure and Fraud?

Quanta Magazine has published a feature asking whether cold fusion — the once-disgraced claim of producing nuclear fusion at room temperature — deserves more scientific scrutiny than its reputation for failure and fraud allows. The piece revisits the history of the 1989 Fleischmann-Pons controversy and the researchers who have quietly continued low-energy nuclear reaction experiments. Readers are debating whether the field was written off too quickly or correctly dismissed.

Why now: A prominent science publication is challenging the long-standing consensus that cold fusion is pseudoscience, prompting debate about whether it merits renewed research.

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