cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/742098

Interesting.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4333257

Professor Philip Moriarty takes issue with a paper by scientists claiming to achieve room temperature superconductivity.

The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008

Key critique points:

• Team has little to no background in superconductivity
• Evidence of levitation can be explained without superconductivity
• Graph showing drop in resistance uses a scale which is orders of magnitude off the scale
• Graph showing drop in resistance shows it does not drop (close) to zero

Phil regrets this bad publication which received so much attention could have a negative impact on credibility of science as a whole.

• https://piped.video/watch?v=zl-AgmoZ5mo
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-AgmoZ5mo

The relevancy for 'Science Communication' is: This video claims to focus on why this was bad science, how safety checks failed, and what negative impact this communication failure might have.

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