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And who can forget the LK-99 thing last summer?

That's what I thought your post was about, bfx. But nope, a completely different superconductivity let down. I'm impressed someone laid out this particular saga in longform.

    Several other researchers told the news team that the principal investigator does not typically produce all the plots. “That’s weird,” Canfield says.

lol this is so commonly true. So many grad students will run the labs for like 80 hours a week, gather the data sets they were told to, and then have no idea what any of it means. Instead of the advisor telling them, the boss'll just swoop in and publish, and the lab rats will be lucky if they get a coauthorship. It's also a reminder that my advisor was so badass that he can't be stopped from making his own plots. He writes code code, not just toggling image and graph settings.

It's perfect that the story ends with him lying about his work on Twitter. Primo perfecto.