Comment Re:Warp drive? (Score 4, Insightful) 416
BTW - cold fusion turned out to be a fraud, despite people clinging to the hope even today.
It did not turn out to be a fraud. It turned out to be a 'mistake', and that is even not sure as plenty of physicians are still or again working in that field.
Fraud is a word used in criminal contexts, it means a person is deliberately misleading other people to gain a profit, usually by causing damage to those people.
E.g. if I sell you at a metro station a ticket for 80 cents, which would normally cost 1,30 Euro
Setting up a weird experiment and finding a strange effect and publishing everything about it: that is science. Even if it get debunked later.