[patientplatypus]

Yeah...there's been so many papers that have been redacted for bad science that have been displayed here on HackerNews that it's disheartening. The largest startup bank goes bust because startups can't do the math, and people are claiming miraculous breakthroughs in medicine and hard sciences. And they're both on the same page - I know that the comments section is automated, but it's automated tone deafness. Maybe post this again when it's replicated?

[aesh2Xa1]

> Given the importance of the new discovery, Dias and his team went to unusual lengths to document their research and head off criticism that developed in the wake of the previous Nature paper, which led to a retraction by the journal’s editors. That previous paper has been resubmitted to Nature with new data that validates the earlier work, according to Dias. The new data was collected outside the lab, at the Argonne and Brookhaven National Laboratories in front of an audience of scientists who saw the superconducting transition live. A similar approach has been taken with the new paper.

[adamsmith143]

Until this replicated by another lab I'd say we can't take it at face value not just because the same lab was forced to retract another groundbreaking paper because of questionable results but also because this would be a monumental discovery and needs verification.

[Prcmaker]

Why be a party of the community if you, as it seems, dislike it so? I don't understand the frequent complaining across various forums where people actively participate in something where they have no obligation to do so.

[aww_dang]

There's always room for improvement. This is a defining characteristic of the human condition.

[6510]

Almost as if we have some kind of goal. If the diversity of ideas for the future in sci-fi may provide a clue the goal is to make people out of plastic to fight the aliens when they come. They wont come but we will be ready.