Feels like you’re strawmanning the idea here. It’s not “every lab” it’s “at least one lab”.
Jeez I sure hope at least one lab can spare the time to bother reproducing a room temperature semiconductor claim.
Jeez I sure hope at least one lab can spare the time to bother reproducing a room temperature semiconductor claim.
Replication attempts don't give you an unambiguous signal, many things can go wrong.
If one lab hasn't succeeded in replicating the paper, does that mean the paper is wrong, or just that a necessary step wasn't documented clearly or followed correctly?
More labs trying to replicate give you more independent signals.
Getting a false negative from a lab is plausible.
Getting a false positive seems very unlikely.
And if this is a diamagnetic that seems to do some of the right behavior, a false positive is quite possible here as well.
Hopefully all corrected in time.
This is a fairly straight forward claim. It’s not like “most science” with dubiously small effect sizes that may not replicate.