Reply To: Transportability

[JimmyT]

I think the best argument against cold fusion is one called “the missing dead graduate student argument”. It goes something like this:

Professors don’t run their own experiments. Instead they have their lowly graduate students do it. Under the guise of “supervision” professors then take full credit for the outcome in the resulting research papers.

“But there arn’t any dead graduate students”, you may say.

Exactly! So there must not be cold fusion.

There would be dead grad students laying around all over the place in several different research labs if cold fusion was for real. This would occur as a result of the neutron flux that would from the levels of excess heat they reported.