http://www.physorg.com/news11545.html

As far as I"ve been able to find, no one else has even Tried to replicate these results. Any form of non-hot fusion is frowned upon by the physics community so such experiments are usually dismissed out of hand, as Physorg has done here once more. Saying that no one Could replicate the finding isn"t the same as saying no one Would replicate them.
Once more journalistic integrity rolls over in it"s grave.

Hi,
Check the original The NY Times article
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/08/science/08fusion.html?_r=1
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More to read -- looks like we're having yet another "stem cells" scandal!!!

As far as no one else having replicated (or tired to replicate) the results - this report is already a replication of a replication. The original story goes back to May '05 or before, also at Purdue, also involving the same scientist. There is nothing what-so-ever new in this 'news.' Follow the two links at the beginning of the story to find the original reports.

Nature carried the following today:

Evidence for bubble fusion called into question p132
Failure to replicate results causes heated debate.
Eugenie Samuel Reich
10.1038/440132b
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The article listed in link 1 (an article of this same publication "PhysOrg"), seem to indicate that two other researchers at the same university have demonstrated similar results. Although, I believe one of the researchers (Yiban Xu) now works in Taleyarkhan's lab. So there is at least one other attempt to replicate that has been billed as "successful". I haven't read many of the "negative" articles (I call the counter claim articles negative for easy categorization), so I don't know if they refute the findings listed in the "5130" article directly. I suspect not.

How ironic, since a reputed confirmation of this experiment is linked on this very page! In any case, it will be interesting seeing the results of the investigation.