Alain Coetmeur suggested I respond to a question at quara.com. I wrote a full-on polemic. I haven't done that in a while. It was enjoyable. Pretty funny in places, if I do say so myself. See:
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-experiment-to-date-that-can-convincingly-demonstrate-that-LENR-occurs/answer/Jed-Rothwell?prompt_topic_bio=1