DanielLC comments on Cold fusion: real after all? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 17 April 2013 10:15:59PM 6 points [-]

They just have to show that there exists some set of experimental conditions for which cold fusion occurs.

It's not that people are claiming it doesn't work because there are so many conditions that fail to cause cold fusion. It's that for each individual set of experimental conditions it has not been replicated. If there is a set of conditions under which cold fusion happens, either we have failed to find it yet, in which case we have no evidence for it, or we have found it, in which case all the replication attempts must have been somehow flawed.

Comment author: RomeoStevens 18 April 2013 08:18:37AM 3 points [-]

hidden variable. you can't control for things you don't know about.