Look, I have 3 degrees in aeronautical engineering, mostly applied physics, which I was engaged in for 40 years in the aerospace division of the Boeing company. The science is reliable when the technology behaves as predicted. This is not a matter of making measurements in the laboratory, where the result is academic. This is a matter of carrying passengers or delivering weapon effects, where the result MUST conform to prediction. I don't happen to subscribe to any notion that "our models are complete enough." But I do subscribe to the understanding that we can design and build in conformance with the models we have. Welcome to the world of academia, where you cannot go off the reservation. And which has been pursuing the mirage of controlled hot fusion for about as long as I have been alive.

Have you read the Journal of Galilean Electrodynamics? You might be pleasantly surprised at the thinking outside the box that goes on there.