3 ms·
South Korea has been desperate for a Nobel prize for a long time. Don't be surprised if they jumped the gun for a false exciting result for national pride.
by carabiner 3y ago
South Korea has been desperate for a Nobel prize for a long time. Don't be surprised if they jumped the gun for a false exciting result for national pride.
- Workaccount2 3y agoYou're not gonna get a noble prize for unverified results.
- laverya 3y agoIt's almost happened before! https://youtu.be/nfDoml-Db64 https://youtu.be/nfDoml-Db64
- carabiner 3y agoYa no shit. Desperation makes people do dumb things.
- distortionfield 3y agoYou think this team would jeopardize their reputations by faking this data with such easily verifiable and thus refutable claims?
- whiskeytuesday 3y agoI mean that's almost exactly what happened with cold fusion, not faking so much as convincing yourself. What's the Feynman quote? "The first rule is do not fool yourself and you're the easiest person to fool" - something like that anyway.
- kjs3 3y agoIt's not unheard of. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02401-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02401-2
- distortionfield 3y agoFair point. I’m just waiting for reproduction, like everyone else. We’ll know soon enough.
- mrguyorama 3y agohttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1892198/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1892198/ It's absolutely a possibility in the space of this situation. However, any judgement, positive or negative, should be withheld until other labs and people claim to reproduce or not.