“It makes no sense for Chinese researchers to be deliberately faking the replication of some unrelated Korean scientists’ supposed fraud (which makes no sense to be fraud in the first place). What could they possibly gain from it aside from the ruination of their own reputations as well?”
Well, basically they get to say they synthesized it first, and the video is proof. While they may have understood it theoretically. So a big university could verify it publicly and then they could just lie and say “oh cool, see Stanford verified it as well, but I was/we were first”
“It makes no sense for Chinese researchers to be deliberately faking the replication of some unrelated Korean scientists’ supposed fraud (which makes no sense to be fraud in the first place). What could they possibly gain from it aside from the ruination of their own reputations as well?”
We should probably never underestimate some people’s addiction to clout.
Well, basically they get to say they synthesized it first, and the video is proof. While they may have understood it theoretically. So a big university could verify it publicly and then they could just lie and say “oh cool, see Stanford verified it as well, but I was/we were first”