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Controversial Physicist Faces Mounting Accusations of Scientific Misconduct
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Scientists have enough attacks on their morale these days, good to see an actual charlatan come under pressure for it. Makes you wonder how many charlatans make claims less bold than a room temp superconductor and just get away with it.
What I'm wondering is if he thought no one would try to replicate his work. That's literally what scientists do. It's why fraudulent work is always eventually uncovered, even if it takes a while. Peer review is a slow - but inexorable - process.
If this is the case it would be an… interesting thought process. You can’t sit there and claim you’ve discovered something absolutely ground breaking and game changing in the field and then think that no one is going to try and replicate that.