You see this type of stuff enough it’s all the same.

People are what drive the hype and what motivates people to lie, cheat, etc is the same no matter where you go or what year it is.

Or maybe it’s because I’ve been burned enough times by hype cycles and magical thinking in my youth I have developed some skill for this. You gotta get burned a few times to understand.

of course you need to be careful. Check yourself. I’m not some perma-skeptic or contrarian. But if it quacks like a duck…

I mean when you see it’s the same kind of hype/people as crypto on twitter, that the legitimate experts are doubtful, that the original paper was very poor, that the authors weren’t able to provide more proof, that the field is full of duds…

I don’t know why people were pretending it was anything over 1% chance of being legit

Whoever told you you need special powers to sometimes correctly evaluate things before most of the internet catches up has a unique definition of "special powers."

No, my special power is extreme cynicism, which works 99.99999999% of the time.