Any headline that talks about “stunning”, “shocking”, or “angering” scientists gets an immediate red flag for me, right up there with “breakthrough” battery tech.
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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New battery tech shocks scientist after breakingthrough insulated casing.
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Middle-aged men in white labcoats and with clipboard in hand, using the words "uncanny" and "eerie" in vague sentences.
Yes, and it's particularly obnoxious when they seem to have twisted a quote as an excuse for this: '"This was absolutely stunning to watch first-hand," said materials scientist Brad Boyc.' I'm pretty sure that use of the word means "beautiful", not "shocking."
This seems really cool, but my two main thoughts when I see something like this are: how badly are they misreporting this, and will anyone bother writing an article about the retraction a few months down the road when it turns out this was something completely different?
"A possible explanation involves a process known as cold welding, which occurs under ambient temperatures whenever metal surfaces come close enough together for their respective atoms to tangle together."
Am i silly or where is the difference? Cold welding is known for a long time, nothing to be stunned about.