> The most disturbing part is the 300+ citations, scientists who based their work off of an obviously garbage paper. > It seems inescapable that the reason why

> The most disturbing part is the 300+ citations, scientists who based their work off of an obviously garbage paper. > It seems inescapable that the reason why must have been complete mathematical incompetency across the entire field. I think you won't have to try very hard to find analogous failures to properly test the truth or falsehood of the literature's conventional wisdom in more "mathematically competent" fields.