Jack Greenberg, the Yale physicist who had pushed hardest to explore the alleged phenomenon over the years, refuses to concede. He has received support from several of his Yale colleagues, including a former President's Science Advisor now president-elect of the American Physical Society, a former head of the High Energy Physics Advisory panel, and the current chair of the APS Division of Particles and Fields. But their pleas are falling on deaf ears as the experiments are being shut down. Also suggested is another parallel with the 150 years of attempts to confirm psychic phenomena. There is great danger in wanting to believe too badly.
Scientists are just as capable of self delusion as other human beings.