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by araes 838 days ago
The people writing the Nature article did not seem to notice the issue. The third part especially was what was occurring to me while reading.

The LK-99 paper, lots of attempts at replicating the results. Crazy quick. Like front-running the published results.

These results, like people never even had the thought to try, and it devolved into arguing sampling issues rather than just trying the material.

There is some certain sub-segment of humanity that often feels that way. Like 8B humans will all bend over backward to let them get away with almost anything. Totally abandon all normal procedures, safety checks, laws, replication, validation, ...