Purdue University panel finds misconduct by fusion scientist

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-purdue-science-friday-080718-ht,0,4485421.story

Tribune wire reports

5:30 PM CDT, July 18, 2008

INDIANAPOLIS - A Purdue University panel has found two instances of misconduct by a researcher who claims he produced nuclear fusion in tabletop experiments.

Rusi Taleyarkhan made headlines in 2002 when he published a paper in the journal Science claiming that he had produced nuclear fusion by making tiny bubbles collapse in a liquid. The new report found misconduct in subsequent papers. snip

The original paper six years ago was met with widespread skepticism. In an unusual move, Science published a companion piece from two researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee -- where Taleyarkhan worked at the time -- that said they could not reproduce the result.

Other scientists, including some at Purdue, where Taleyarkhan now works, have tried without success to independently reproduce his results.

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1. That explains the profusion of fusion confusion lately.