Talk:Cold fusion

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Bob M--I was mostly just trying to get a link from the page to something else, so that it wouldn't be a "dead-end." It was really the only thing I could think of. Thanks for making it better.Researcher 15:49, 24 September 2007 (EDT)

I think you're probably right in a way. Many scientists in the past have researched what turned out to be pseudoscience. It's how the 'pseudo' is added to/left off the word. Actually it should probably be "pseudotechnology".Susan^{talk to me} 15:58, 24 September 2007 (EDT)

Yeah, but who wants to make up a whole "pseudotechnology" page? I mean, we could also do a Perpetual Motion Machine and the silly thing from Atlas Shrugged, but that would be about it?Researcher 16:01, 24 September 2007 (EDT)

Not that I know anything about this, but aren't we sort of confusing "pseudo-science" and "currently impossible science" here? It seems to me that whether or not something qualifies as pseudoscience should be dependent on methodology, not results or lack thereof. --AKjeldsen^Godspeed! 16:05, 24 September 2007 (EDT)

If I remember the original stuff was by Fleshamn Fleshman and Ponds. They didn't publish anything in journals and nobody could reproduce their work. There was loads of hype and no substance. So nobody would look at the subject for years. Now some people are taking another look and they are trying to advance the theory and getting some stuff published. Others are still wary though. Possible pseudoscience sounds a good description to me.--Bob^{'s your uncle} 16:08, 24 September 2007 (EDT)