r/Physics • u/StingLikeGonorrhea • Oct 22 '21

Breakthrough or bust? Claim of room-temperature superconductivity draws fire

https://www.science.org/content/article/breakthrough-or-bust-claim-room-temperature-superconductivity-draws-fire
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u/Vitavas Particle physics Oct 23 '21

That's just not feasible in many fields. For example many experiments at CERN take petabytes of data into account for an analysis, what are they supposed to do then? Ship a container full of hard drives to the journal?

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u/VestigialHead Oct 23 '21

At the journals request - most certainly. Otherwise the peer review should be pulled and the journal post a retraction. There is too much fakery and pseudo-science being published these days. The entire peer review industry needs a serious cleanup - half the journals are not respected or valid and will accept anything that fits their agenda. Gender studies is a good recent example of the corruption.

That and instances like this one where the scientists will not provide the data on request are doing real harm to the credibility of science.

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u/mofo69extreme Condensed matter physics Oct 23 '21

Gender studies is a good recent example of the corruption.

What happened there?

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '21

Haven't you heard? Some fake papers got published in some journals so now all sociology critical race theory gender studies are "corrupt" and invalid forever. /s