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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by Aqueous on Friday August 04, 2023 @09:49AM (#37000001)
This is a common misunderstanding. The main mechanism for self-correction in science isn't about replicating or refuting findings. It's about which science survives to become the basis of other science. If a finding does not bear out, it simply will not become the basis for subsequent science. It's similar to natural selection.

The so-called "replication crisis" is overblown.

If LK-99 fails to be a useful material, it's interesting life will be over very shortly. If it is useful (and even if it's not the promised room-temperature superconductor, but useful in some other aspect), it will continue on in science, in technology - everywhere it might be useful for further investigation.

Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by Apocryphon on Friday August 04, 2023 @12:36PM (#37002340)
Invoking the replication crisis was a rhetorical flourish. The point is that OP’s attempt at a rejoinder about proof in the negative leading to fame is silly because the entire field does not seem to be very much interested in proving negatives.
Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by fnord77 on Friday August 04, 2023 @09:31PM (#37008066)
>it's interesting life will be over very shortly.

the authors managed to squeeze 24 years of grant funding out of it