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I took a science journalism class in college where our instructor had us read a paper and then write the news story that explained what was interesting about th
by mherdeg 5y ago
I took a science journalism class in college where our instructor had us read a paper and then write the news story that explained what was interesting about the result.
"You all got it wrong," he said, "the news is not that Amy Wagers could not make things work with mouse stem cells the way this prior paper said this one time. The news is that Wagers-ize is becoming a verb which means 'to disprove an amazing result after attempting to replicate it'. The lab has Wageres-ed another pluripotent stem cell result. The news is about how often this happens and what it means for this kind of science."
This class was in 2006 and this later profile in 2008 seemed to bear things out the way he said: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/07/amy-wagers-focusing-on-stem-cell-biology/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/07/amy-wagers-fo...