意大利一个法庭正面临着一桩棘手的案件——冷核聚变的发现者庞斯、弗莱希曼以及其他3位意大利科学家,控告意大利一家颇有影响的日报《共和国报》犯有诽谤罪。为了弄懂关于冷核聚变的科学内容,法庭不得不聘请一位技术顾问。这在意大利司法界是一件新鲜事。1991年10月,《共和国报》记者吉奥法尼·帕西在该报发表的一篇书评中,用强烈的措辞抨击庞斯和弗莱希曼是“科学骗子”。帕西在文章中还不点 A court in Italy is facing a thorny case: the cold nuclear fusion discoverers Pons, Fleischmann and three other Italian scientists sued Liberia, a influential daily newspaper in Italy, for libel. In order to understand the science about cold fusion, the court had to hire a technical advisor. This is a novelty in the Italian judiciary. In a book review published in the newspaper in October 1991, Republican newspaper reporter Geoffrey Pasi attacked Ponis and Fleischmann in “scandalous terms” with strong language. Passy is not in the article yet