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Did anyone else find this article a bit jarring? Hungarians make the discovery but it isn't news until (reputable??) American academics glom onto it?
by gradstudent 10y ago
Did anyone else find this article a bit jarring? Hungarians make the discovery but it isn't news until (reputable??) American academics glom onto it?
- dmix 10y agoWere you expecting a virtuous "Build it and they will come" thing to happen in the community? I'd imagine a ton of reports coming out all the time, not everything of value bubbles to the top right away.
- gradstudent 10y agoMy point is not that it wasn't picked up right away -- it's that the discover only became news when Americans got hold of it. More, the reporting is more about the American confirmation and interpretation than the Hungarian discovery! It's honestly a bit jarring.
- hackney 10y agoNo. Considering the amount of time it took for the original research to begin with and for any subsequent attempt to replicate, the fact that 'americans' were cited as the replicators is superfluous.