Phenomenon: The Lost Archives — Season 1, Episode 14: HeavyWatergate: The War Against Cold Fusion

Episode synopsis

On March 23, 1989, respected chemists, Dr. Stanley Pons and Dr. Martin Fleishman made an announcement that rocked the world of science. Their tabletop experiments with heavy water, a renewable resource readily available in ocean water, yielded enormous amounts of heat energy. Appropriately named, "Cold Fusion," this breakthrough challenged many basic scientific concepts. In response, a group of powerful physicists, heavily reliant upon government funding for their hot fusion research, leveled an unprecedented smear campaign against Pons, Fleishman and the entire field of Cold Fusion science. Was the discovery of Fire From Water too good to be true? Or was it the discovery of the millennium?

About Phenomenon: The Lost Archives

A recently unearthed repository of materials formerly classified by the secret government....The Phenomenon Archives. This series covers the taboo subjects which have had light shed on them by pouring over the materials in this repository.

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• E2Tunguska: The Russian Roswell
• E3Stolen Glory: The Cover-up of Cosmonaut Vladimir Ilyushin
• E4Up for Sale
• E5Lost Lighting: The Missing Secrets of Nicola Tesla
• E6Keeping the Faith
• E7Science Fraud: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?
• E8Genesis Revisited
• E9Irretrievably Lost: The Search for the Savannah Warhead
• E10Monopoly Men
• E11Unknown Encounter
• E12American Midnight