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Banned Discoveries

Research restricted, retracted or withdrawn, and the documented reasons why.

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Disputed claimBanned Discoveries

Cold Fusion: Fleischmann & Pons

On 23 March 1989, electrochemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons announced that a tabletop cell containing palladium and heavy water had produced more heat than ordinary chemistry…

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Disputed claimBanned Discoveries

Wilhelm Reich & Orgone

Wilhelm Reich’s story contains two questions that are often mistakenly treated as one. The first is whether the United States government suppressed his work.

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SpeculationBanned Discoveries

The Hutchison Effect

The “Hutchison Effect” is the name given to a collection of extraordinary events reported by Canadian experimenter John Hutchison beginning around 1979.

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Disputed claimBanned Discoveries

Stanley Meyer’s Water Fuel Cell

Stanley Allen Meyer became famous in the 1980s and 1990s for claiming that he could run an internal-combustion vehicle primarily on water. His public showpiece was a modified dune buggy.

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Disputed claimBanned Discoveries

EMDrive & Reactionless Propulsion

The EMDrive was proposed by British aerospace engineer Roger Shawyer in 2001 as a way to turn microwave energy directly into thrust without expelling propellant.

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