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[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 69 points 3 days ago (1 children)

whaaaat surely BYU, the school that claimed to have done cold fusion, is an upstanding pillar of academic research

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

i hate defending byu, but wasn't that UofU?

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I recently watched a BobbyBrocolli video on it, the controversy mostly surrounded UofU, a quick search shows that Pons and Fleischman are from UofU. The video also mentioned that BYU also claimed to discover cold fusion, but not the energy of the future self sustaining kind.

i must have missed ybu's announcement. no worries, there have been a lot of hoaxes in that area.