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by shevy-java 1 day ago
If old results do not add up then I can see two immediate reasons:

- The new results are wrong. That's why there is a difference.

- The old results were wrong. In this case all involved scientists should be very much ashamed to have helpfully participated in worshipping wrongness and fakery.

A third option could be partial wrongness, but I group this into the second case. In the modern era I no longer buy into honesty of scientists at all times. Case in point: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1197258 - bacterium growing via arsenic. Totally fabricated, hence lateron "retracted" (originally published in 2010).

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There is a fourth option, something has changed in between the old and new expirements.

This has happened before in other settings, disappearing polymorphs are a real thing.