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Not fair. It was her idea, she concocted the theory, investigation and reported the results. Insofar as she didn't do part of the full experiment, no teenager
by ctdonath 14y ago
Not fair.
It was her idea, she concocted the theory, investigation and reported the results. Insofar as she didn't do part of the full experiment, no teenager should be allowed to carry out casual experiments involving shutting off life-support equipment on heart patients - duh, let an adult handle that bit. That she didn't win doesn't mean anything more than the winners were better projects, drama aside.
People DID learn something. Awareness is spreading about the issues of proliferation of magnets strong enough to cause false inputs to implanted medical devices.
The only thing the news got wrong was the subtle jab at Apple, rather than a more neutral reference to the many magnet-containing products which have similar odds of the same problem.
- elithrar 14y ago> It was her idea, she concocted the theory, investigation and reported the results. As far as Bloomberg reports. Her father is hinted as being a heart surgeon ("given her father's specialty") but it's never explicitly pointed out in the article. She's obviously extremely intelligent—and I have no qualms with a 14 yo getting some hints from their parents for a project idea—but the article seems designed to sensationalise an issue that has long existed. "Apple story == page views".
- tenderpalms 14y agoDad is a cardiac electrophysiologist.
- ctdonath 14y agoSo dad's a heart doctor. Mine's a digital electronics engineer. No wonder my science fair projects favored computers and her's heart health.
- tankbot 14y ago> Not fair. You're right, of course. I was being overly cynical. These types of "news" stories just get my hackles up.