I suggest you ignore Shanahan's blather. Let him go after some definitive work such as McKubre, Storms or Miles. Kitamura's calorimetry was not impressive years ago, although I doubt it was as bad as Shanahan imagines. It is lately improved and the results are also better. See:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BiberianJPjcondensedl.pdf#page=287 - Jed