• wahming@monyet.cc
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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure how significant this is. They basically said ‘we read your study and it didn’t make sense to us, nor did the video’. There was no attempt at replication. Which would be fine and all, except that others have reported varying degrees of success in their replication attempts, indicating there’s at least a little fire behind the smoke.

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      1 year ago

      You’re right, they basically released a statement thay they’re incredible skeptical but they will test things further to see.

      That being said the company thay initially release the video like about who it worked with to develop this compound, and one or two of the people who conducted the research released the report without the approval of the whole team. So there are some tell tale signs of a scam or half truths here.

      I am hoping that this compound actually is a room temp super conductor, because it would revolutionize so many industries, but things aren’t looking great lol.

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      1 year ago

      The onus is on the researchers making the extraordinary claims.

      Extraordinary claims require solid proof. That’s like science 101.

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        1 year ago

        And their proof is the report they already put out. A refusal to examine or test the proof doesn’t mean it’s invalid. That’s Science 102.

        It may be invalid, I myself am extremely skeptical, but in this situation it absolutely is possible to prove that the process described doesn’t work, that’s what replication studies are for. Replicating the experiment and reporting on the results is vastly more valuable than “Your study didn’t make sense to us.”