[yeahwhatever10]

This is the forum that fell the hardest for the superconductor hoax a few years ago. HN has no superiority leg to stand on.

[Seanambers]

LK-99? The room temperature superconductor made by some guys in a small lab in Korea after 20 years of attempts - who doesn't want that to be real.

Won´t say people fell for it though it was just the current happening at the time.

[Gerardo1]

> who doesn't want that to be real.

I think that's exactly the point the person you're responding to is calling out. That's a massive bias.

[dcow]

Uh… what do you call mass downvoting anything reasonably skeptical? I saw comments saying “I’ll wait until the data can be replicated to believe it” turn grey almost immediately on most threads. And after we knew it didn’t replicate it took the community the better part of a week to grieve and admit that the “it’s not a superconductor” results were real and not operator error.

[sandspar]

Forums shed and gain members over time. Much of that cohort is gone.

[Hasu]

If anything it's been replaced with a far more naive and gullible cohort, not a more skeptical one.