New Goodstein Book Mentions “Cold Fusion”

Caltech professor David Goodstein has a new book out that mentions “cold fusion”: On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science.

The chapter on “cold fusion” appears to be a near-verbatim copy of his Accountability in Research paper, published in 2000.

That paper states that the original article was written in 1994, and first appeared in The American Scholar.

Goodstein did not appear to cite the provenance of that chapter in his book.

First two sentences from 2010 book chapter:
“On December 6-9, 1993, the Fourth International Conference on Cold Fusion took place in Hawaii, on the island of Maui. The event had all the trappings of a normal scientific meeting.”

First two sentences from 1994 article:
“On 6-9 December, 1993, the Fourth International Conference on Cold Fusion took place on the island of Maui, in Hawaii. It had all the trappings of a normal scientific meeting.”