[gjm11]

I agree that "can factor 15" isn't terribly impressive. (Well, it's kinda impressive, because making a quantum computer do anything at all is really hard.) I very much agree that D-Wave's quantum annealing stuff is bullshit, especially if anyone is claiming it's any good for factoring large numbers. I don't expect you, or anyone, to point out every bit of bullshit in every paper published.

I'm all in favour of pointing out bullshit. But there's a boy-who-cried-wolf problem if you just indiscriminately claim that everything is the same kind of bullshit without checking it.

Of course that doesn't mean that you're obliged to check everything. You can say "I expect this is bullshit of the usual sort but haven't checked". But if you say "this is bullshit of the usual sort" without checking and it turns out that that isn't the case (it looks to me as if the paper I linked to isn't the kind of bullshit you describe) then you take a credibility hit that makes all your bullshit-spotting much less useful than if you were more careful.