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Critics quickly pointed out that Pons and Fleischmann never used a control experiment, although controls are standard scientific practices expected even of first-year chemistry students. Without a control experiment, it was impossible to tell for sure if the heat generated in the experiment came from fusion or from a previously unknown chemical reaction...
Adding to the confusion was the fact that Pons and Fleischmann made the announcement at a news conference rather than through the established route of publication in a scientific journal. Some accused the pair of publicity-mongering at a time when they should have been publishing an accurate paper on their findings for peer review...
Another Harvard team at the Advanced Physics Laboratory tried to duplicate the experiment procedure Pons and Fleischmann used, but gave up on its tests after they failed to produce either heat or neutrons...
Most cold fusion experiments around the world also yielded negative results, and the repeated reports of failure fueled speculation that Pons and Fleischmann's discovery was closer to science fiction than science...
...dissatisfaction with the Utah team's experimental technique came to a head at a convention of the American Physical Society on May 1, when several physicists charged that the claims of Pons and Fleischmann were unsubstantiated and that the two had used shoddy research methods...