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Am important note that no one has raised yet: this is NOT a discovery, this has been a very long running project, run between scientists and native peoples. The
by TheRealPomax 8y ago
Am important note that no one has raised yet: this is NOT a discovery, this has been a very long running project, run between scientists and native peoples. The headline steamrolls the fact that this is absolutely not an accident, but the payoff on over a decade of research and hard work.
Shame on you, U.C.Davis. Your own article literally explains this, why the disingenuous headline?
- schoen 8y agoI think "discovery" is commonly used both for serendipitous discoveries and for successful research efforts (though sometimes it may have a connotation more of the former). (There's also the metaphysical and marketing question about things being invented vs. discovered.)
- phyzome 8y agoWithout having looked at the article, I interpreted it as "we found something in the wild or already in cultivation, not already known to us", not "we made dis".