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I'd bet any amount of money that this data already exists in some form and so re-inventing the wheel - haha - with this study was not particularly useful. Like

I'd bet any amount of money that this data already exists in some form and so re-inventing the wheel - haha - with this study was not particularly useful. Like the parent comment says, water is wet. When you exercise stuff changes. What most biologists never do is point out all the things that don't change. That's how we'd see how special it is in this case that telomeres change.

untilHellbanned 10y ago
Ok so me-too apps like yet another photo sharing app is not cool, but me-too incremental biomedical research is cool. Good to know we are all about innovation here.
- TelmoMenezes 10y ago
  In science, "me-too research" is also known as "replication", and it's one of the pillars of the scientific method. There should be more of it, not less (as recent crisis have shown). "Incremental research" is 99.999% of what scientists do. Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein are very, very, very unusual scientists. That's a good sign, by the way -- if science was suffering major paradigm shifts every day, that would mean that no stable knowledge was being produced. Keeping in mind that we are talking about extending the healthy lifespan of human beings -- that could be the people you love -- who cares about "being cool"?
  - mikk14 10y ago
    Just a quick note pointing out that also Darwin and Einstein did 99.9% incremental research. Natural selection and evolution were well known concepts before the Origin of the Species, and so it was relativity. What Darwin and Einstein provided was just small steps forward, and a LOT of perspective over what was already there.
- chc 10y ago
  You don't even know if this is "me-too" — you just "bet" it is, and then hedge the description with "incremental," which allows that it might actually add something. There is literally no factual substance to the complaint. Your objection here is so shallow that the word "shallow" implies more depth than it actually has.
  - untilHellbanned 10y ago
    Ok so my 20 years in the field means nothing to trolls. I can live with that.
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untilHellbanned 10y ago

Ok so me-too apps like yet another photo sharing app is not cool, but me-too incremental biomedical research is cool. Good to know we are all about innovation here.

TelmoMenezes 10y ago
In science, "me-too research" is also known as "replication", and it's one of the pillars of the scientific method. There should be more of it, not less (as recent crisis have shown). "Incremental research" is 99.999% of what scientists do. Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein are very, very, very unusual scientists. That's a good sign, by the way -- if science was suffering major paradigm shifts every day, that would mean that no stable knowledge was being produced. Keeping in mind that we are talking about extending the healthy lifespan of human beings -- that could be the people you love -- who cares about "being cool"?
- mikk14 10y ago
  Just a quick note pointing out that also Darwin and Einstein did 99.9% incremental research. Natural selection and evolution were well known concepts before the Origin of the Species, and so it was relativity. What Darwin and Einstein provided was just small steps forward, and a LOT of perspective over what was already there.
chc 10y ago
You don't even know if this is "me-too" — you just "bet" it is, and then hedge the description with "incremental," which allows that it might actually add something. There is literally no factual substance to the complaint. Your objection here is so shallow that the word "shallow" implies more depth than it actually has.
- untilHellbanned 10y ago
  Ok so my 20 years in the field means nothing to trolls. I can live with that.
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