[postalrat]

"but the hype only serves to obfuscate the truth"

Is that true? Do you think the Koreans or anyone would have made more progress finding the truth without the hype?

[zephyrthenoble]

Are you implying that people on Hacker News saying LK-99 is a superconductor helped the scientific community in some way?

[hackinthebochs]

Who on HN said that with enough confidence and credibility to do enough damage to the conversation such that it would be better had the conversation not happen at all?

[chpatrick]

Did it "obfuscate the truth"?

The truth was only discovered because the hype made a lot of scientists investigate the material.

[mgfist]

The interest and intrigue around LK-99 made science cool. There will be all kinds of positive knock on effects of this - least of which is that we got down to the bottom of LK-99 years before it would've happened if the preprint never got published.

[malux85]

Strawman argument - You are reducing the comment to "Hacker News" when thats not at all what they said, they said "The hype".

For sure the hype caused a lot more focus on reproducability attempts than it would have got otherwise.

[mrguyorama]

Do you honestly believe HN discussing this had ANY affect on ANYONE?