The Cold Fusion Bad Boys Welcome back to "Bad Boys of Science." In the third part of the series, we look at Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, two electrochemists who stirred the scientific pot with their claim of achieving "cold fusion" – a claim that, if proven true, could have revolutionized energy production. The chemists Pons & Fleischmann. (Picture credit) In 1989, Fleischmann and Pons, working at the University of Utah, shocked the world with an astounding announce