Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.

When the paper was finally publiMartin Fleischmannd both electrochemists and physicists called it "sloppy" and "uninformative" and it was said that had Fleischmann and Pons waited for the publication of their paper most of the trouble would have been avoided because scientists would not have gone so far in trying to test their work. Early life
Born in Karlovy Vary Czechoslovakia in 1927. doi:10.

Premature announcement of his cold fusion research with Stanley Pons regarding excess heat in heavy water led to their names being identified with the frenzy controversy and backlash that followed although they continued their interest and research in cold fusion.