I'm really excited by the hype around it because it's a great demo of how science works in practice in a semi "real-time" fashion. Whenever I share news on it, I always preface that it's still in the replication / validation phases by multiple labs. I don't I've read of anyone so far stating that this is 100% legit.

It's just nice to see the scientific process get carried out - here's something we discovered, and now labs are working to reproduce the result to see if it's an actual thing or not. From my understanding, this stuff generally takes years to validate, but we're getting "immediate" glimpses here and there which makes it really exciting.

I get that the paper hasn't gone through peer review yet, but there's something interesting about the findings that are prompting labs to immediately try to replicate it.

People are just having fun entertaining the very real possible and "believing". What's wrong with that? It is more interesting to just go ahead and say that they are 100% sure LK-99 is real whent here are no stakes. Having differentiated and uncertain opinions all the time gets boring.