Plot inconsistencies that cannot be ignored. (Spoilers)

The plot of "The 3 Body Problem" is based on scientists being so confused and desperate at the chaotic results of new subatomic physics experiments that do not make sense or agree with old experiments that they decide to kill themselves. Pretty weak-willed scientists is what I think.

Inconsistencies are exactly what scientists mean to find in experiments - results that do not make sense that require new understanding. It would be like a puzzle, like when, whoever it was, Watson or Crick had the dream about the double-helix nature of DNA.

Science only advances with experiments that do not make sense or non-linearities where results that are not what are predicted - therein lies new areas to find out about, understand and exploit. In reality what would have happened is that scientists would communicate these bizarre results to other scientists, or publish them in the science journals and talk about them and discuss what could have produced such results.

They would go back and try to find the experiments that either would be consistent and build from there, or realize that there were some kind of outside force affecting their experiments and set about trying to make sense of it.

Also, I am not sure it really made any sense for the aliens to have contact with humans once they knew where we were and set their invasion fleet sailing. And in this version of the story, the aliens being confused by humans' ability to lie seemed silly.

And finally, any civilization that could unfold two protons in quantum entanglement, send them to Earth and manipulate many peoples' realities, and be in all places on the Earth at practically all times ... why would they not be able to solve their own problems by moving their planet out of the way, or steering their suns into a stable arrangement?