A superconductor claim blew up online. Science has punctured it(washingtonpost.com) |
A superconductor claim blew up online. Science has punctured it(washingtonpost.com) |
>Their invention was scientifically bankrupt
Did you just replace "morals" with "science" here? What do you mean by this?
Or do you mean that their "invention" was without reason? Even if journals are not needed today, "arxiv and social media" did not yet exist.
The Western world could double its science budget tomorrow and not notice the line item cost, and should probably double it's education budget while we are there (which we would notice but that's kind of the point).
We don't know where the next break through will come from, but well educated well funded researchers is the one thing we do know we need.
He's prolly got Electrolytes, too.
"A black body claim for short wavelengths blew up academia. Science punctured it so resolutely that the claim is now called an ultraviolet catastrophe!".
Everything else is alchemy and superstition and most definitely NOT science.
A bunch of theoretical-science types have been putting out PR as fast as possible, and trying to claim that it’s over.
The whole thing looks very corrupt.
I'm sorry, but skepticism isn't "corrupt". 99 times out of 100, it's right. No one is being suppressed here. Anyone with even a hint of a positive result goes viral on twitter instantly. But the results just aren't there. And yeah, the crufty theoreticians are haw-haw-hawing a little (cold fusion -style, I guess) at the people who jumped on the possibility without really thinking through the implications.
But the theoreticians were right about cold fusion too. Look, if LK-99 is real then you don't need a theoreticians blessing. The problem is that *it's not real*, at least not yet, and you're demanding the theoreticians hold their opinions because it upsets you that they think you're wrong.
It's just so upsetting to me the extent to which the HN community has charged down this meme-driven, anti-rationalist path. Everything that doesn't feel right is suddenly the word of an enemy to commenters here. And we used to be so sure of our fact-based world views!