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It bothers me that you think people need to be protected against being misled by the title of a professional article that is not link-bait in context. It really
by vacri 11y ago
It bothers me that you think people need to be protected against being misled by the title of a professional article that is not link-bait in context. It really lowers the bar for expectations of people's intellect.
> and by leaving that fact out the publication likely gets more exposure.
No, that's just how articles in professional journals get titled. This is not a buzzfeed article culled from secondary sources. There is not a single person interested in neurology (the journal's audience) who would be misled by that title. I haven't been in neurology for 11 years, and I knew as soon as I saw the title that the article would be a single-patient case study.
The last thing professionals need is to have to dumb down their communications on the off chance a layperson might stroll by.