I have been asked on several occasions during the last ten years to provide a commentary on subjects such as the Sociology of Science, Social Responsibility in Science etc. with special reference to the topic of "Cold Fusion". I have always been reluctant to do so for two principal reasons. The first is that I believe that the consideration of these topics is premature. The reason is that I am convinced that there is much more information which bears on such topics which will be revealed in the fullness of time. Furthermore, there are aspects of the past history, developments and, indeed, of the science which I do not wish to discuss even at the present time. Inevitably, therefore, any such article will be incomplete, will lack focus and will be couched in rather general terms. This is the way the present article has turned out to be; in view of the evident deficiencies, it should only be taken as a first step in trying to develop a discussion of the important Social Issues. The second reason for my reluctance to write on such topics is that I believe that one cannot develop such discussions without an understanding of the Science involved. While such an understanding will always be important, it is especially important for the case of "Cold Fusion" because this work was paradigm driven; i.e., it was undertaken because of a belief that the present day interpretation of condensed matter is incomplete. My view has always been that the revelation and discussion of this aspect would only lead to further adverse criticism (and it will be interesting to see whether this will be the case!). My preference was to restrict attention to the experimental results and to await the development of the necessary paradigm. This is the normal pattern of scientific research, and my attitude was determined by my wish to follow a "hidden agenda" as described in Section 4. However, it is now 10 years since the initial announcement, 30-40 years since my realization that such effects must be present (and might be observable depending on whether one takes 1970 or 1960 as the starting time for such considerations) and more than 50 years since I first discovered some of the key background information. Perhaps, therefore, it is now time to start to discuss the Sociology of the subject? This article is divided into the following Sections …