Quanta delenda est!
In a sensible world, where science journalists understood the science they are trying to communicate, and science editors didn’t regard their readers as dimwits with the attention span of a smoked salmon, I wouldn’t be writing this post. Unfortunately, we don’t live in that world. And where do we live? We live in a planet where a famous popular science magazine has written an article claiming that these two pre-prints [ 1 , 2 ] “overturn” my results on the experimental disproof of real quantum physics . For the record: I disagree, so do my co-authors and so does any expert in quantum nonlocality, the topic of my work. Does Quanta magazine care? No. In fact, as we will see, they censored the opinion of the only expert interviewed because it clashed with the narrative of this travesty of a science communication paper. This leaves me no other choice but to do Quanta’s job. In the next pages, I am going to explain what my paper is about, what the two pre-prints are about, and why ...
