Beijing Superconductor (LK-99) Levitation Video Author Admits Fraud, Takes it Down::The author of one of the Billibilli videos posted as proof of LK-99’s levitation capabilities has admitted that his posting was a hoax.

    • yiliu@informis.land
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      1 year ago

      Seems like a bad take. This is from the equivalent of some random YouTube video, unrelated to the original university & scientists.

      You think it’d be possible to find a YouTube video with some bad science nonsense in it? Would that warrant a “fraud in the US, huh” comment?

      Separately, science in China does have a fraud problem. But this video wasn’t an example of that.

      • Redditiscancer789@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I mean your example is still accurate. The person posting that video is a fraud, and if they live in America, “fraud in the US” would be most accurate as it singles out a specific person, as opposed to the statement I believe you are trying to make which would be don’t judge the whole country by 1 person. Yet they didn’t say that, they specifically say a fraud(singular) in China.

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          1 year ago

          i mean the point they were trying to make is pretty clear imo no need to dance around it so pedantically.

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      1 year ago

      They better be careful otherwise the world won’t take them seriously anymore, oh wait.