[nailer]

Why would Sagan not want to be associated with cold fusion?

[AlotOfReading]

Because it was only like 5 years after Fleischmann and Pons sparked headlines in every major newspaper as scientific frauds?

[philwelch]

After a few weeks of excitement over the Fleischmann/Pons thing, cold fusion has never since been taken seriously by fusion researchers. It's a dead idea as far as I'm aware.

[kijin]

Perhaps Sagan had undisclosed resentment toward Adobe ColdFusion as well.