Cold fusion
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Cold fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature. It would contrast starkly with the "hot" fusion that is known to take place naturally within star
Cold fusion apparatus at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego (2005)
"Triple tracks" in a CR-39 plastic radiation detector claimed as evidence for neutron emission from palladium deuteride
Michael McKubre working on deuterium gas-based cold fusion cell used by SRI International
Pathological science
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Pathological science is an area of research where "people are tricked into false results... by subjective effects, wishful thinking or threshold interactions." The term was coined by Irving Langmuir,
Cold fusion
…errors in the original study. By late 1989, most scientists considered cold fusion claims dead, and cold fusion subsequently gained a reputation as pathological science. In 1989 the United States Department of Energy (DOE) concluded that the reported results of excess heat did not present convincing evidence of a useful…
Irving Langmuir coined the term pathological science in a talk in 1953.