I'm curious how this will play out in the scientific world - if there's a slew of failed attempts to reproduce the findings, this will be the new cold fusion, a

I'm curious how this will play out in the scientific world - if there's a slew of failed attempts to reproduce the findings, this will be the new cold fusion, and such an embarrassment may actually affect the way papers get published. In the layman world, of course, the original paper will be used as justification for whole shelves of pseudoscience books, and the public won't actually hear about any failed attempts to reproduce the claims.