r/interesting 5h ago

Context Provided - Spotlight A true hero

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u/Powerful_Bridge_3814 4h ago

Smells like bullshit. Seems there's a new cure every week yet the studies are always preliminary bs that never eventuates into anything. It isnt worth reporting on except to generate clickbait horse shit

u/BeefistPrime 2h ago

It's a problem with the reporting, not the research. Non-scientists writing science are awful, and news as entertainment is awful, so we get a preliminary treatment where it has a 95% chance of not working out and people get all excited and when it doesn't work out for some completely predictable reason they make it into a giant conspiracy theory