In the past few months, there has been widespread criticism of Dr. Steven Jones’ former muon-catalyzed research through the documentary “Heavy Watergate, The War Against Cold Fusion”: <br /><br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQz7JUJ4hOU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQz7JUJ4hOU</a> <br /><br />As I thought these attacks on Dr. Jones could possibly derail the credibility behind his current research analyzing various samples of World Trade Center dust, I decided to interview him in the hope that he might permanently settle the controversy behind the claim that he once was a saboteur of early cold fusion research. <br /><br />Thankfully, Dr. Jones refuted the accusations made in "Heavy Watergate, The War Against Cold Fusion" by way of a number of compelling points: <br /><br /><blockquote>1.) Pons and Fleischmann were independent researchers that Dr. Jones did not know when he first began his work on muon-catalyzed fusion in 1985. <br /><br />2.) Dr. Jones’ first paper on muon-catalyzed fusion, <i>C.D. Van Siclen and S.E. Jones, "Piezonuclear Fusion in Isotopic Hydrogen Molecules," Journal of Physics G. Nucl. Phys. 12: 213-221 (1986)</i>, was published three years before the 1989 Pons and Fleischmann announcement. <br /><br />3.) The 1989 decision by Pons and Fleischmann to go public with the results of their cold fusion research was theirs and theirs alone to make. To suggest that a previous open declaration by Dr. Steven Jones about his independent work somehow played a manipulative role in this event is ridiculous and unfounded.</blockquote>
