From what I understand, this group wasn't actually funded to look for superconductors but instead for materials to aid in quantum nanoscience - so the claim isn't that they don't know how to read their instruments but rather that they aren't well-versed enough in superconductor research to appropriately design/test for the phenomenon.
They in fact could not get funding and the research is funded by investment money. They explicitly thank their investors at the end.
Re:Breaking Superconductor News
by TheBigSalad on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:00PM
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What is finding?
Re:Breaking Superconductor News
by tomjakubowski on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:56AM
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What do you mean? Is it one of the other papers? I see this:
Funding: This research was mainly supported by Quantum Energy Research Centre, Inc. and was also partially supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education(2019R111A1A01059675) and Young-Wan Kwon is supported by a Korea University Grant.
I don't know, either: what's the difference between receiving funding for research and taking investment money for it? Are you talking about public vs private funding?
What? How do they get funding and lab space if they can't read their own measurements? Something is fishy here.