Here is an article in Physics Today: "Q&A: Harry Collins on acquiring and using scientific knowledge."
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.4.20210217a/full/ It says: "And to debunk cold fusion, it had to be agreed that [Stanley] Pons and [Martin] Fleischmann were not the right kind of scientists to be doing the work. In neither case was it enough, at the time, simply to say the results weren’t replicated, even though that is how we describe it in retrospect." I posted the following response, which was removed. Jed Rothwell <https://disqus.com/by/disqus_uvQVCeaAV7/> an hour ago <https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.6.4.20210217a#comment-5272374398> Removed Collins said: " And to debunk cold fusion, it had to be agreed that [Stanley] Pons and [Martin] Fleischmann were not the right kind of scientists to be doing the work." Pons and Fleischmann were not debunked. Their results were replicated in over 180 major laboratories such as Los Alamos, China Lake, and BARC. These replications were published in mainstream, peer-reviewed journals by many distinguished scientists, such as the Chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission. Many of the replications were at very high signal to noise ratios, for example, with excess heat ranging from 5 to 100 W, and tritium ranging from 50 to 10E16 times background. Helium has been measured in many labs at the same ratio to the heat as D-D plasma fusion. A review of the subject is here: https://lenr-canr.org/acrob... <https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Flenr-canr.org%2Facrobat%2FMcKubreMCHcoldfusionb.pdf%3ArPdp1s1Kpk7x0SnRhk0DRQ5a91Y&cuid=4259234> A collection of papers is here: https://lenr-canr.org <https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Flenr-canr.org%3AtYca3nQIoCXrAXAEE2YPJppMMyQ&cuid=4259234> Furthermore, Pons and Fleischmann were experts in electrochemistry and calorimetry, which are essential skills to reproduce cold fusion. Other experts confirmed other aspects of the results. The designer of the Los Alamos Tritium System Test Assembly and the Tokamak Fusion Tests Reactor tritium detector confirmed the tritium, as did the experts at BARC and elsewhere. The helium was confirmed in the three top U.S. helium detection laboratories, in blind tests.
