NEWS review and financial audit of NCFI, and questioning whether Peterson's role in the Utah faculty protest mislabelling of the $5<XJ,OOO might warrant his resignation. Salamon also says that, due especially to the efforts of Joseph cold fusion dealings Taylor, vice-president for academic affairs, the university has now guaranteed • Cold fusion institute funding probed him legal indemnification. • Fusion critics receive legal threats On 5 June, Salamon received a second Washington Triggs' letter he was told that legal rep­ letter from Triggs, apologizing for "any FINANCIAL and legal activities at the Uni­ resentation by the university "could not concerns or misconceptions" his first versity of Utah, involving a $500,000 be guaranteed". Later he discovered that, letter may have caused and assuring him donation to the National Cold Fusion as a state employee, he is automatically that there was no intent "to limit in any Institute (NCFI) and payments to a lawyer indemnified against legal costs or actions way the lawful exercise of your academic who sent letters to some faculty members arising from official business. After con­ freedom." The letter adds that Pons and threatening legal action on behalf of sulting privately with a lawyer, he decided Fleischmann now "intend to settle [the] Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, not to reply to Triggs' letter. dispute in the court of science through have brought protests even from suppor­ After investigations by Gary Taubes, publication." But the letter repeats ters of cold fusion research. Reviews are author of Nobel Dreams and...