Report: Superconductivity researcher found to have committed misconduct

Details of what the University of Rochester investigation found are not available.

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[the cave troll]

While I'm always skeptical of room-temperature superconductor claims, I'm pretty sure it's not an exception to the laws of physics as we know it.

It's similar to how when super conductors were first discovered it seemed implausible but it turns out they're perfectly possible!

Yeah, I think that it's a bit akin to cold fusion in this respect: extremely implausible but not strictly speaking impossible.

Put another way: it is a dream that I think is totally worth spending a lot of venture capital chasing after, since it is not like they were doing anything actually useful with that money anyway...

 

[the cave troll]

We could never trust Nature.

Indeed; nature never lies, but sometimes Nature does.