• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Every science article, every single one. They always make things sound like breakthroughs and I have to come in the comments to find out it’s bullshit or exaggerations. Why?

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        1 year ago

        Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article.

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        1 year ago

        To be fair, every ‘breakthrough’ starts small and takes decades before reaching the public.

        Lithium-ion batteries are my favorite example because we take them for granted but the technology to make them was proven in the 70s.

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        1 year ago

        Rtfm?

        The headline is clickbait. The article ends with

        “While these preliminary findings are very encouraging, it is premature to declare that there is a functional HIV cure on the horizon,” the researchers say.

        I get more frustrated with articles like this than true clickbait. Here’s a genuine breakthrough in science, in an important health area: we should be excited, happy, inspired. Instead we’re annoyed by a misleading clickbait headline