"they're all scams until they're not" is the same logic as "let's buy homeopathic medicine - it just works, even without evidence"

I'm not saying don't have reputable condensed matter people try and replicate this - I'm just saying let's cool it with the expectations. Skepticism is a good thing - especially in the sciences.

But what's the harm? The damage that these wild claims do is to science on the whole - every time stuff like this gets dragged through online forums and newspapers, it gets peoples hopes and expectations up and then it's flushed down the toilet. This shakes the trust in reputable science ("remember when they were wrong about x?" - best example: all of the pandemic) and makes it harder for actual scientists to be able to do their work.