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It's too good to be true.
Cheap, clean, common doesn't happen. The odds that they were able to manipulate a second lab to falsify data are a million to one over this being a thing. If I'm wrong I'll Venmo you twenty bucks, if money is still a thing within weeks of this actually being a thing.
What's the point in manipulating another lab with money? When confirmations or otherwise will start popping up from other labs around the world in probably days(?)
There's no such thing as bad publicity, name recognition will get a scientist pretty far.
They have seven days until doubts can truly start cropping up, then another few weeks until all but the people who really want to believe are buying in.
Why would another lab be manipulatable? This guy didn't even need to get paid off:
"The video in question is allegedly from the University of Science and Technology in Beijing and purports to show a small black substance floating in the air as it follows a magnet. According to the video's poster, he did it for "attention grabbing purposes" - it was a way to coast the hype around LK-99." Gotta strike the iron while it's hot.
Current analysis says lk-99 isn't even a"good"conductor, let alone a super conductor, let alone a room temperature super conductor. I'll hope that "this one easy to produce material has revolutionized science" gets discovered some day, but it didn't happen last week.