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To fully understand all that entails the debate of cold fusion one must understand how cold fusion first appeared and why it was so controversial.
History of Cold Fusion


One of the problems the community had with the presentation of the cold fusion theory was the fact that Pons and Flcheishmann did not publish their results to the community first.

Thus, when the community tried to reproduce the experiments they did not use the same procedures and did not produce the same results. This made the cold fusion experiments look like they were a hoax.
Experimental Debate


Cold fusion has had a hard existance in the scientific community from the very beginning. The fact that it goes agaanst current theories made it highly exciting to the scientific community when it came out. However, the way it was presented made the community angry.
Theoretical Debate