Purdue panel finds misconduct by fusion scientist

I have followed this dispute since it began in 2002, i was in college studying mechanical engineering and fluid mechanics. I read the initial publication and everything that followed. Taleyarkhan is not a pseudo scientist, this work is legitimate and intriguing. That fact is Taleyarkhan and his colleagues are(were?) working on a legitimate piece of scientific phenomena that is poorly understood. they were not out to create "cold fusion". Its a shame that his name has been tarnished by this. Maybe there was something going through radioactive decay in that lab that produced a positive neutron emission from the scintillator, But the fact still stands, the mechanism for sonoluminescence is not fully understood and it is worhty of research.

Please check out this timely article on Cold Fusion / LENR and how it has been continually repressed and falsely maligned since 1989 despite over 100 successful replications of the Pons and Fleischmann experiments by fully reputable Universities / Professors all over he world.

http://www.opedne...824.html

...yes and for every purported successful replication of the Pins & Fleishmann effect, there have been several others that achieved no result. And nobody has been been able to reliably replicate the result.

That said, I think the anomalous heating happens so often it demands some explanation. But cold fusion it ain't.

It's not exactly new; I ran into this at the patent office a long, long time ago.
Check out U.S. 4,333,796! (Of course a patent doesn't mean that it works).

[i]..the task of committee wasn't to judge the validity of particular experimental results, but to assess the specific charges of misscondict...[/i]
Sniff, sniff... here's smelling something. I'm not big fan of sonofusion, as I'm finding it as a somewhat unpractical approach - but I can feel the fabrication of reasons, why to stop this research ASAP. The reasons published appears as a highly subjective, personally motivated for me. The latest success of cold fusion is reported here - who has attempted to reproduce it? Do we have a cold fusion energy enough to be approved to waste a research potential by such way?

http://physicswor...p_1.html