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As Philip points out, Sabine Hossenfelder’s quick summary on LK-99 2 weeks ago punched large holes into this whole thing in less than 5 minutes. I wish media outlets presented skeptic viewpoints instead of just hype.. but that doesn’t sell.

LK99 - A new room temperature superconductor? https://youtu.be/RjzL9cS3VW8

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Hossenfelder is just a cynic that critizises more or less everything that isn't her own work. She even tried to discredit LIGO a few years ago - not even using her own insight but merely by paraphrasing what a Danish group thought they had seen as error. This issue has been resolved since then and the Danes just misunderstood parts of the original paper.

According to Wikipedia the people behind LIGO even admitted tuning numbers.

Lol. These conspiracy scientist outgrowths are getting truly insane. "Lets ignore all these published, peer reviewed independent studies that confirm the discovery and listen to one random guy who's most likely not even a physicist and writes his ideas on wikipedia."

There were lots of skeptical viewpoints in mainstream news, even early on:

https://www.google.com/search?q=lk-99&sca_esv=557962971&biw=...

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