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The support that the history of the coldfusion controversy offers to the constructivist view of levels emerges as follows.
Even so, the developments in coldfusion were seen as a threat by many more physicists than those directly engaged in plasma or laser research.
The coldfusion claims of 1989, in contrast, attracted criticism that spilled over from the purely theoretic domain to the professional one.
Reactions of the second kind were perceptible in the chemistry community from an early stage in the coldfusion controversy.
The extra features shown by the coldfusion controversy are due in part to the disciplinary issues that underlay it.
It closely resembles the coldfusion episode in several respects.
After all, the immediate response to reports of coldfusion was additional experimentation, not a rush to revise theory.
The chemistry profession perceived in the claims of coldfusion both a theoretic anomaly and a professional opportunity.
In return, the constructivist view of the disciplinary division of science offers an interpretation of the coldfusion controversy.
The dissent of some chemists from their colleagues' stance of support toward the coldfusion claims tells us something more about the strength of disciplinary affiliations in scientific controversies.
It will be seen that the stances typically taken by the participants in the earlier controversy were significantly different from some of those adopted during the coldfusion episode.
Until a miracle such as coldfusion comes to exist we have to go on using sources of power that are not ideal.
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