Allegations of data fabrication have sparked the retraction of multiple papers from Ranga Dias, a researcher who claimed discovery of a room-temperature superconductor

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What I’m wondering is if he thought no one would try to replicate his work. That’s literally what scientists do. It’s why fraudulent work is always eventually uncovered, even if it takes a while. Peer review is a slow - but inexorable - process.

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If this is the case it would be an… interesting thought process. You can’t sit there and claim you’ve discovered something absolutely ground breaking and game changing in the field and then think that no one is going to try and replicate that.

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I mean, a lot of bad results have stood for decades.

But a room-temp semiconductor? That’s a bit different.

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