The article by Robert Crease about Bogdan Maglich and migma aneutronic fusion seems more like a gossip column than a scientific critique.
Notwithstanding Crease's comments on Maglich's personality, there remain facts not mentioned in the story about the research that Maglich, along with distinguished colleagues, has conducted over an 18-year period that bear national attention and scrutiny:
U.S. taxpayers have spent, since 1950, more than $20 billion on so-called mainline fusion, which has yet to achieve proof-of-principle. Congress funds the fusion establishment (through DOE) on a "maintenance basis," now at about $350 million annually.
Isn't it time to shift 1% or less of those funds to a promising alternate concept, migma aneutronic fusion?
