I think you're misinterpreting the second tweet, I read it as "I can't publish a preprint myself since I'm not the only one working on it now, and my team doesn't feel our work is ready for publication". Of course it can still be bullshit but it makes sense that a biochemist doesn't have the means to test this material and that a credible physics institute wouldn't want to rush publication if they aren't sure of their results.

I believe she said it wasn't a replication because she had changed the formula.

She seemed to have problems with the efficiency of the original formula, which is why I believe she doesn't believe it's replication what she produced may in the end not be LK-99.

It seems like she's in the process of getting X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD) done.

There has been several fake videos placed out there on the Internet.

There is a quote by jay-z I'll paraphrase

" Men lie

Women lie

But replicable science don't lie. "

The mixture of USSR tweets has patriotic Americans so ruffled that some can't see through their disbelief and rage.

>I believe she said it wasn't a replication because she had changed the formula. She seemed to have problems with the efficiency of the original formula, which is why I believe she doesn't believe it's replication what she produced may in the end not be LK-99.

Yes, it isn't replication, and the only proof that her modified substance does anything interesting is a photo of a single grain suspended inside a small tube. She hasn't written anything clarifying the process from her vague twitter thread, she hasn't posted a video showing the sample's behavior (which would be better than nothing), she hasn't shown any measurements, and when people ask for these things, she gives unconvincing excuses.

And yet every thread is full of people saying she was the first to replicate. The USSR tweets are a little eyerolling but not the main issue