Anyone else notice how many "accidents" happen to scientists working on cold fusion research?

Genuinely been wondering about this for a while. The number of researchers who either died suddenly, had labs destroyed in "accidents", or just completely disappeared from public life after making promising breakthroughs is hard to ignore once you start looking into it.

Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann obviously come to mind first - two legitimate electrochemists who got absolutely buried by the scientific establishment after 1989. Whether that was coordinated suppression or just institutional gatekeeping is the bit I can't figure out.

What I want to know is whether anyone here has actually mapped out a proper timeline of incidents? Like is there a resource somewhere that lists the researchers and what happened to them, because every time I try to research it I end up going in circles between dodgy sites that don't cite anything.

Does the pattern look different when you compare it to other "forbidden" energy research areas, or is cold fusion specifically targeted more than others? Genuinely curious what people who've been researching this longer than me think.

I've not heard much about this specifically but it does make you wonder doesn't it. Cold fusion was supposed to be completely debunked after Pons and Fleischmann, yet somehow serious researchers keep quietly coming back to it. If the establishment really wanted it dead you'd think they'd just ignore it rather than... well, whatever you're suggesting is happening. Not saying I disbelieve you, I just think I'd need to see some specific names and cases before I'd be convinced it's more than coincidence. Do you have a list of the researchers you're thinking of?

Fleischmann and Pons is the obvious starting point isn't it. Two respected electrochemists announce excess heat results in 1989 and within months the whole thing gets absolutely torched by the mainstream physics community, careers in ruins, funding pulled. Pons basically fled to France and never worked openly in the field again. That's not how science normally handles a "failed" experiment, that's how it handles a threat. The speed and ferocity of the debunking always felt coordinated to me, way beyond normal peer review scepticism. Worth looking into who was funding the hot fusion programs at the time and how much they stood to lose.