[infogulch]

Proof that science works Just Fine using simple tools like arxiv and social media. Journals are dead. Their invention was scientifically bankrupt, their existence has bred the very human biases and social conflicts that science was supposed to eliminate, and their raison d'être is rendered moot by technology. Good riddance. Long live the scientific method.

[Turskarama]

Hardly, it only worked in this case because of how high profile it was. You cannot use the "submit to arxiv, wait for 100 labs to verify" model for anything less exciting than room temperature superconductors.

[matthewdgreen]

And honestly, if they’d waited until their work was up to the quality bar for a journal submission, a lot of resources would not have been wasted attempting to replicate it.

[lamontcg]

And people absolutely proved that their ability to read scientific claims in isolation and make an educated guess how much weight to give them is really bad.

[Vt71fcAqt7]

Would this paper be published in a reputable journal? I think they would ask for better graphs at the very least, maybe more detail of the process of creating the material. It doesn't seem like the arxiv prerint did any good here. I don't think science = being in a journal but this event doesn't show evidence for the death of journals.

>Their invention was scientifically bankrupt

Did you just replace "morals" with "science" here? What do you mean by this?

Or do you mean that their "invention" was without reason? Even if journals are not needed today, "arxiv and social media" did not yet exist.