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The clickbait is the "What does it mean?" format. "Researchers are trying to work out why." "Here's what 4k researchers think." It's possible that clickbait
by fc417fc802 2y ago
The clickbait is the "What does it mean?" format.
"Researchers are trying to work out why."
"Here's what 4k researchers think."
It's possible that clickbait is technically the wrong term but it's a pattern that I strongly associate with those practices. It's an idiocracy-esque development. Learning that it has spread to the likes of Nature is saddening.
- pmags 2y agoI posted the article here, and I had a fairly similar reaction to yours. I was tempted to remove the "What does this mean for our health?" part of the title, but I thought that such a large edit might be against HN policy / too much editorializing on my part. In any case, I thought the article was worth posting because it's a nice intro to a area of recent progress in biology that not a lot of folks are aware of.