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#2The article is a kind-of blogspam (edit: if the title did include "Korean eunuchs may have the answer"): it seems that BBC produces the similar articles regularly, the process seems to be simply finding the old news and making a new article which includes the "related" stuff in the text, as the subject of the title (with eunuchs) was presented in the paper from 2012:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982212...
and it was covered by the media also in 2012, like
http://www.wired.com/2012/09/eunuchs-testosterone-longevity/
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/25/health/eunuchs-lifespan/
Edit: I don't see any traces of "Korean eunuchs may have the answer" at the BBC page now, though. Then it's just the poster who edited the title? Interestingly, the article author and the poster here share the name and initials: "David Robson" and "d_a_robson." Then, d_a_robson, please don't change the article titles when you post them here, it's against the HN practice.
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#3The article is a kind-of blogspam (edit: if the title did include "Korean eunuchs may have the answer"): it seems that BBC produces the similar articles regularly, the process seems to be simply finding the old news and making a new article which includes the "related" stuff in the text, as the subject of the title (with eunuchs) was presented in the paper from 2012: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S…
"Korean eunuchs may have the answer"
yes, the key word in this sentence is "may". So the author discloses himself as a best guesser. The same wording is used in the articles about longevity and beer vs. wine. "If drank in moderation, a glass a day really may keep the doctor away".
About alcohol we could read recently that the control groups in most studies had been assembled badly: parts of the never-drinkers were former alcoholics or otherwise seriously ill people. So the non-drinkers statistically died earlier. If those were removed from the not drinking control group, alcohol doesn't give an advantage. Instead, it has known bad effects (cancer risk, die of accident while drunk, etc.).
Still, the bbc article ignores this and refreshes old myths.
Pure entertainment, IMHO.
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#4The article is a kind-of blogspam (edit: if the title did include "Korean eunuchs may have the answer"): it seems that BBC produces the similar articles regularly, the process seems to be simply finding the old news and making a new article which includes the "related" stuff in the text, as the subject of the title (with eunuchs) was presented in the paper from 2012: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S…
"Korean eunuchs may have the answer" yes, the key word in this sentence is "may". So the author discloses himself as a best guesser. The same wording is used in the articles about longevity and beer vs. wine. "If drank in moderation, a glass a day really may keep the doctor away". About alcohol we could read recently that the control groups in most studies had been assembled badly: parts of the never-drinkers were fo…
For the context, the wine article mentioned was also submitted by the same "d_a_robson" and written by "David Robson" who just posts the articles here, never commenting:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10457294
Is BBC really so hungry for clicks? Is the author paid per click? Somebody may know the answer.
Edit: and now the post is deleted, and we may never find it.