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From Perry Bebbington

Andrew Stiller complains that your editors and contributors are harming Â鶹´«Ã½‘s reputation by taking cold fusion seriously (8 August, p 24). I have to defend your approach.

Cold fusion may be on the fringe of science and it may be extremely unlikely ever to work at all, let alone as a viable power source, but the activities of those who still think it has a future are of interest to many, myself included.

Sometimes original and useful science comes from people who started out on the fringes. It is always possible that those investigating cold fusion might discover something else interesting or useful.

Just as theatre is not degraded by the , but enhanced by it, Â鶹´«Ã½ actually enhances its reputation by its willingness to report on fringe science.

Kimberley, Nottinghamshire, UK