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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why aren't there many people researching Polywell reactors?
gpt
Because it doesn't seem to work very well. Almost all of the sources for that article are news releases and news coverage, with very few peer-reviewed journals that actually document the results of their experiments. Unfortunately, this is the *modus operandi* for scammers, or those who just continue to believe in their own idea in the face of contradictory evidence.

I'd love to be proven wrong, but the reticence of the inventors to provide quantitative data in a peer-reviewed environment is a red flag.