A worthless replication. Grainy photos of supposed samples floating. When asked for videos she just insulted the people asking for videos to no end and to date has not provided any. No measurements provided either.
https://nitter.net/iris_IGB/status/1685774956330635264#m
They won't publish a preprint on their version because they think it would be "unfair"!
https://nitter.net/iris_IGB/status/1687020011548770304#m
Every post this person makes throws up more red flags. I have no idea why people believe any of their claims besides "haha anime girl"
She seemed to have problems with the efficiency of the original formula, which is why I believe she doesn't believe it's replication what she produced may in the end not be LK-99.
It seems like she's in the process of getting X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD) done.
There has been several fake videos placed out there on the Internet.
There is a quote by jay-z I'll paraphrase
" Men lie
Women lie
But replicable science don't lie. "
The mixture of USSR tweets has patriotic Americans so ruffled that some can't see through their disbelief and rage.
Yes, it isn't replication, and the only proof that her modified substance does anything interesting is a photo of a single grain suspended inside a small tube. She hasn't written anything clarifying the process from her vague twitter thread, she hasn't posted a video showing the sample's behavior (which would be better than nothing), she hasn't shown any measurements, and when people ask for these things, she gives unconvincing excuses.
And yet every thread is full of people saying she was the first to replicate. The USSR tweets are a little eyerolling but not the main issue