I think it’s a fairly interesting story over all, and it feels like exactly how science should happen. We are humans and easily deluded. We fall easily for things we wish to be true. The fascinating story behind LK99 is incredibly human - including the rushing a preprint out to secure a noble prize by one of the researchers who was being excluded. The fascinating part to me was the fact engineers and scientists could on their own time try to replicate and did so in the open. People were excited and eager for it to be true and found hope in the ambiguity and excitement in the partial successes, and dreamed of what could be. Then, through careful analysis by experts who know their subjects well, we learned it was not the magic we dreamed it might be but a magic that we already knew about. A negative result of something so many people wished to be true is an ultimate victory of science, and to me more exciting than a positive result in many ways. It tells me we are on the right track on a great many things in the world, when it feels often we are on a wrong track on most things.