[oxfordmale]

The cold fusion scandal shows scientists sometimes do fool themselves into believing their own claims, even when lacking rigorous scientific evidence.

Maybe they just have discovered an material with interesting electric properties rather than a super conductor. Time will tell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

[Riledcat]

Ning Li’s superconductor anti-gravity claims are another good comparison. Very senior scientist, big claims, no repeatable results by any other teams. 30 years on and still no antigravity effect.

[xorbax]

Sorta? Except her career is less "stopped publishing" and "left academia with her department chair and set up a DoD-attached corp that did something for decades we don't know about"