It's yet another thing this kind of lay audience doesn't understand about the scientific process. What should you take from studies like this? Nothing. They pro

It's yet another thing this kind of lay audience doesn't understand about the scientific process. What should you take from studies like this? Nothing. They probably shouldn't even be getting shared to Hacker News. They're conducted because we can't experiment using novel compounds directly on humans until we've shown there is some reason to do so first. Finding an effect on mice is such a reason. This type of research is published for the sake of other researchers, who can now see if the effect is also seen in humans.