The claims of cold fusion still seem quite dubious. I remember having a lot of doubts about that paper claiming "verification" of cold fusion, and given the behavior of a number of members of academic community, it isn't too surprising that you might find some academic somewhere that would be willing write sketchy papers just to get published. Until a big national lab gets behind this you may as well file this with N-rays: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N_ray