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Comment by dave333 | Hacker News Reader

That wikipedia page has a strong skeptical bias and is seriously out of date.

Sounds like skepticism is warranted.

Ah, the forever cry of the crackpots. That's particularly rich complaint given it's a publicly editable resource. The only reason it could be in poor shape and "out of date" is because you yourself left it that way.

If that was a truly workable theory it would have verifiable predictions and compatibility with all prior observation and it would be eagerly explored. Scientists as a whole like to find anomalies and discrepancies; it is what keeps them in business. There is no "conspiracy".

Edits are removed unless they are published in well known journals which is fair enough for scientific results, but you cannot even update the page to state Mills latest engineering improvements or update factual information about the company.

If they have actual engineering improvements this sentence in the Wikipedia article could be easily disproved.

> BLP has announced several times that it was about to deliver commercial products based on Mill's theories but has never delivered any working product.

The main problem is there is so much power the device melts. They have now started using molten gallium electrodes (as of 2016), and now a quartz crystal housing that lets the UV light out and doesn't melt. They are offering hydrinos in a bottle to qualified labs. Stuff goes through a gas chromatograph faster than hydrogen.

"skeptical bias" is an oxymoron.

A skeptic merely rejects claims without evidence.

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