Gary Taubes
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Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion
Gary Taubes
At 1:00 P.M., on March 23, 1989, two obscure scientists at the University of Utah announced that they had discovered salvation in a test tube—cold nuclear fusion. The technology promised sale, cheap, limitless energy, and the press played it as the scientific breakthrough of the century. It would become instead a fiasco of epidemic proportions, an unforgettable morality tale in the scientific method: what happens when reason is perverted by hope and greed.
Gary Taubes’s Bad Science is the vivid, dramatic, and definitive story of the astonishing quest…
