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The embarrassment of cold fusion

Nature volume 344, pages 375–376 (1990)Cite this article

The variable and transient claims of experimental evidence for cold fusion made a moving target which attracted too much enthusiasm and too little derision.

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Lindley, D. The embarrassment of cold fusion. Nature 344, 375–376 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/344375a0

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