Science is a work in progress as a business.
And sometimes questionable research from the fringes masquerades as revolutionary truth.
![](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/https___blogs-images.forbes.com_startswithabang_files_2018_05_lensed-galaxies.jpg?w=960)
Here are 10 ways bad science may have fooled you in 2023.
![population iii star](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/1120_pop3-CC.jpg?w=1280)
Ten.) discovered by astronomers of the universe first star.
![Galaxy spectrum He O](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/He-vs-O.jpg?w=1260)
truth: They are definitely there, but remain undiscovered for now.
![Lens magnification curve Dark matter wave](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/magnification-curves.jpg?w=1122)
9.) dark matter is wave-like nature.
![Lens geometry Standard wave Dark matter](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/basis-of-results.jpg?w=1125)
truth: One poorly observed system is no basis for such sweeping conclusions.
![jwst background galaxy](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/bggals3.jpg?w=4251)
8.) JWST’s distant galaxies disprove the Big Bang.
![Relationship between the probability and age of early galaxies in JWST](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/likelihood.jpg?w=1046)
truth: The deviation from expectations is small and consistent with modern cosmology.
![big bang mirage](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/origin-127.jpg?w=1280)
7. ) Expanding universe It’s a mirage.
![hydrogen spin flip](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1120px-Hydrogen-SpinFlip.svg.png?w=1120)
truth: Ground-based laboratory experiments contradict the nonphysical assumptions of the study.
![Age vs. Cosmology and Redshift](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/bizarre-ages.jpg?w=675)
6.) macrocosm It’s actually 26.7 billion years old.
![uranium oxide oklo reactor](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/20201105113.jpg?w=1200)
truth: Historical observations rule out this option.
![superconducting quantum levitation](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Superconductor-levitation.jpg?w=960)
Five.) LK-99 is a room temperature superconductor.
![LK-99 conductor is not a superconductor](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/totally-sus-1.jpg?w=840)
truth: Resistance will never be zero. It’s definitely not superconducting.
![Earth-like exoplanet](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2560px-Esa-hubble-k2-18a_impression.jpg?w=2560)
Four.) Exoplanet K2-18b is The sea world where people live.
![atmospheric spectrum jwst K2-18b](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/STScI-spectrum.jpg?w=1920)
truth: That claim falls apart without dimethyl sulfide, but no dimethyl sulfide was detected.
![galaxy quasar hybrid](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/dusty-quasar-galaxy-hybrid.jpg?w=2000)
3.) time In the universe’s past, it ran much more slowly..
![expanding universe](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/redshifts.gif?w=760)
truth: The passage of time does not change, but the propagating light expands due to the expansion of the universe.
![NASA's NASA Spacecraft NASA's NASA Spacecraft N.](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_lruPdzgf2s_7aBLE.jpg?w=800)
2.) Binary star prove (or disprove) Mondo.
![albireo yellow blue double star](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/3210610987_59a1092680_o.jpg?w=921)
truth: This method, riddled with uncertainties, yields unreliable conclusions.
![Robe Metal Small Sphere](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/unnamed.png?w=1240)
1.) We discovered alien technology on the ocean floor.
![metal globule contamination](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1-s2.0-S0926985122000155-ga1_lrg.jpg?w=933)
truth: It was industrial pollution and a charlatan who deceived himself.
![Iron fractionation ratio found in the nine spherules recovered by Avi Loeb](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/im1-spherules-my-ass.jpg?w=861)
Always demand overwhelming evidence.
![baryon acoustic vibration horeirana](https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ezgif-3-697dfbca70.gif?w=808)
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