[mattkrause]

Nature doesn’t need to hedge because their reputation won’t really affected by publishing—-or not publishing—-something on LK-99.

Paul Laterbur, who won a Nobel Prize for MRI after Nature rejected his paper on it has quipped that "You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature."

The “top journals miss good stuff all the time; they publish bad stuff pretty often too. Sorting them out is just really hard.