The following picture was published in Nature in 2013 - if correct, it is a straightforward refutation of the second law of thermodynamics:

http://images.nature.com/m685/nature...mms3500-f1.jpg

Here is the publication:

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3500
Yu Hang Li et al. Unidirectional suppression of hydrogen oxidation on oxidized platinum clusters

A catalyst accelerates the forward and suppresses the reverse reaction! In such cases the authors should not mention the second law of thermodynamics at all - otherwise their paper would not be published. On the other hand, the scientific community (in the post-truth world) couldn't care less about the truth or falsehood of the second law of thermodynamics or any other tenet in science.

Pentcho Valev