I’d note they claimed to try the synthesis over 1000 times to arrive at their best sample. They admit to not being physicists and being more experimental chemi

I’d note they claimed to try the synthesis over 1000 times to arrive at their best sample. They admit to not being physicists and being more experimental chemists. If there is anything here, which at minimum seems they’ve found something interesting. The theoretic research published recently supporting their claims coupled with the discussion that the apparently superconducting material is less likely to form it’s probably (IMO, IANAP) a process that requires substantial refinement but holds a claimed experimental and theoretically demonstrated potential to be a room temperature normal pressure superconductor as claimed. There seems to be a lot of “their work is sloppy” and “their method isn’t refined” as a proof of a negative, but it’s just proof that science is done in many ways by many techniques and no one is sufficient, but everyone is necessary.