It was because the person who worked in the same university just decided to run the numbers and found that they weren't necessarily consistent, and then it wasn't replicable. One of the underlying tenets of science these days as that if you publish work, it has to be replicable by somebody else. If they're not reproduced, then that calls into question whether it's real. And so that basically happened. It may have just been thathethe brain, brain waves were read differently when it's up happening. To the study, why does hit get challenged? I don't know about the order of it. Did he say yes the tenth time because he was just tired of being asked that
A groundbreaking new study claims to have found a way for a fully paralyzed person to communicate entirely via thought. But the scientists behind it have a checkered past.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Tori Dominguez and Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained
Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices