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Probably why hot takes outside of the field is physics in this instance are ignored.

My hot take rebuttal?

There has been no multi billion dollar investment into LK-99.

If scientists around the world took to Twitter and all tested and sought to disproved Theranos's claim all at once BEFORE Theranos became a juggernaut of fraud, I think there would be a more apt comparison.

To history's credit there were a few scientist who stood up and said that Theranos's claim was not possible.

So far the there is a lot of hype and social media energy, but not the same levels of fraud and deception going on here. If anything the science has started to point towards the likelihood there may be something to the claims in the original LK-99 papers.



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