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But Pons and Fleischmann's fame soon turned to infamy, as other scientists began to question the pair's experimental method and results.
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...
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...
When the pair finally produced a report a few weeks after the announcement, it contained a full page of mistakes. Specifically, one of Pons' graduate students who helped write the report had his name "inadvertantly" left off the report.
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.