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"A black body claim for short wavelengths blew up academia. Science punctured it so resolutely that the claim is now called an ultraviolet catastrophe!".
Everything else is alchemy and superstition and most definitely NOT science.
Who is Science?
Anthony Fauci: https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/anthony-fauci-i-am-th... He's prolly got Electrolytes, too.
Proof that science works Just Fine using simple tools like arxiv and social media. Journals are dead. Their invention was scientifically bankrupt, their existence has bred the very human biases and social conflicts that science was supposed to eliminate, and their raison d'être is rendered moot by technology. Good riddance. Long live the scientific method.
Hardly, it only worked in this case because of how high profile it was. You cannot use the "submit to arxiv, wait for 100 labs to verify" model for anything less exciting than room temperature superconductors.
No, “science” has done no such thing. A bunch of theoretical-science types have been putting out PR as fast as possible, and trying to claim that it’s over. The whole thing looks very corrupt.
I'm amazed how invested some people are in this. I'm sorry, but skepticism isn't "corrupt". 99 times out of 100, it's right. No one is being suppressed here. Anyone with even a hint of a positive result goes viral on twitter instantly. But the results just aren't there. And yeah, the crufty theoreticians are haw-haw-hawing a little (cold fusion -style, I guess) at the people who jumped on the possibility without real…
Proof that science works Just Fine using simple tools like arxiv and social media. Journals are dead. Their invention was scientifically bankrupt, their existence has bred the very human biases and social conflicts that science was supposed to eliminate, and their raison d'être is rendered moot by technology. Good riddance. Long live the scientific method.
>Their invention was scientifically bankrupt
Did you just replace "morals" with "science" here? What do you mean by this?
Or do you mean that their "invention" was without reason? Even if journals are not needed today, "arxiv and social media" did not yet exist.
Who is Science?
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Hardly, it only worked in this case because of how high profile it was. You cannot use the "submit to arxiv, wait for 100 labs to verify" model for anything less exciting than room temperature superconductors.
And honestly, if they’d waited until their work was up to the quality bar for a journal submission, a lot of resources would not have been wasted attempting to replicate it.
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I'm amazed how invested some people are in this. I'm sorry, but skepticism isn't "corrupt". 99 times out of 100, it's right. No one is being suppressed here. Anyone with even a hint of a positive result goes viral on twitter instantly. But the results just aren't there. And yeah, the crufty theoreticians are haw-haw-hawing a little (cold fusion -style, I guess) at the people who jumped on the possibility without real…
I’ve seen enough blatant gaslighting about this on Twitter (and here) to just ignore you.
It's just so upsetting to me the extent to which the HN community has charged down this meme-driven, anti-rationalist path. Everything that doesn't feel right is suddenly the word of an enemy to commenters here. And we used to be so sure of our fact-based world views!