Why is Cold Fusion Under Attack?

The blog I posted on Renewable Energy World yesterday on cold fusion has already gotten a few insightful comments. The common theme seems to be the sad fact that politics, rather science in its dispassionate purity, is the leading driver of the technology that we as a society ultimately adopt. As I’ve written abundantly elsewhere, I think the evidence for this is overwhelming — and I see no way around it today or anytime in the future.

To me, this suggests a “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” approach. I.e., if the good guys win, that is, if clean energy ultimately replaces fossil fuels while we still have a habitable planet on which to live, it will happen only because you and I told the story to enough people and developed a sufficient groundswell of opinion. Let’s never stop.