Is the Second Law of Thermodynamics Safe?

Davide Castelvecchi, 29 March 2017: "But thermo-dynamics is paradoxical. The second law, which also puts limits on how efficiently heat can be converted into work - as happens in a steam engine - is particularly controversial.. The law says that the production of disorder is irreversible. But some physicists argue that..." http://www.nature.com/news/battle-be...ats-up-1.21720

I thought that was the beginning of a revolution is science, an attempt to free science from the strangling hold of an obviously false law, and enthusiastically wrote quite a lot of comments. The second law of thermodynamics has long been under attack but a red herring deviating the attention to small, microscopic, quantum etc. systems has been very powerful so far:

Nature 2002: "Second law broken. Researchers have shown for the first time that, on the level of thousands of atoms and molecules, fleeting energy increases violate the second law of thermodynamics." http://www.nature.com/news/2002/0207...s020722-2.html

The truth is that MACROSCOPIC systems violating the second law of thermodynamics are COMMONPLACE ( see my comments he
http://www.nature.com/news/battle-be...ats-up-1.21720 )

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