I haven't been able to find any information that Zack Jud (the "original scientist") actually performed the same experiment that Lauren Arrington did. If such i

I haven't been able to find any information that Zack Jud (the "original scientist") actually performed the same experiment that Lauren Arrington did. If such information exists, I'd be very happy to change my mind. Until then, here's what it looks like: - Jud did some good science and discovered some fish where they shouldn't be (in fresher water than had been previously thought possible) - He published his work, and one of the co-authors is associated with Arrington, the kid scientist at the centre of this. (a co-author is a friend of Lauren's dad) - Lauren (some years later) did a series of experiments where she kept the fish in tanks and gradually exposed them to fresher and fresher water, and the fish did not die. Unless I'm very much mistaken, Jud discovered fish living in fresher water than previously thought possible, but did not perform controlled experiments in tanks. While his results are similar to those that Lauren is becoming famous for, they are not the same. I agree that his work was probably crucial to the formation of Lauren's experiments (and that the core of the result--that the fish can live in fresher water than thought possible before Jud's work--is not original), but can't help think that there's an inappropriate conflation going on here, if not more than one.