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Scientists may have found mechanism behind cognitive decline in aging

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Re: Scientists may have found mechanism behind cognitive decline in aging

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Post by foobiekr »

dazc wrote: post #150
bluepod4 wrote: post #130

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That’s strange for your dentist to give up money like that lol. But also, at dental cleanings they do things like polish your teeth. Do you also not require that?

As it was explained to me, flouride will work in repairing microscopic areas of decay so long as the surfaces of your teeth are ultra clean. My dentist insists that I see the hygienist every 3 months for descaling, cleaning and basic checks. For the cynics, the cost of this is negligible and I have not needed a filling or any other costly procedure for over a decade.

Fluoride won’t but hydroxyapatite will.

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Post by kshacker »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #245
coldtea wrote: post #236

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> A title is not "the most informative and complete sentence summarizing the article", it also has the goal to stimulate curiosity. It shouldn't have to do the latter. That's clickbait. People are either organically curious about what actually happened or they are not. If they are not, they shouldn't be "stimulated" with BS. That "media/advetising" attitude is the cause behind many issues with science in society toda…

Ehh. We’ve been here long enough to both know that there’s a balance. $10 says the mods won’t change the title to the suggested one, precisely because of this balance. It’s not about clickbaiting. The whole reason the research is getting funded in the first place is to try to find the link.

We really need "saved you a click" version of hacker news. Same UI just title recommended by users

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Post by UhUhUhUh »

Research now more or less always proceeds bottom-up so that it's never possible to determine causality from results. Everyone looks for causality, researchers look for positive results and the wheel keeps on turning. When top-down thinking disappears, science enters a cognitive decline of its own. This one is contagious.

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Post by YurgenJurgensen »

Ensorceled wrote: post #231

Apparently we should add "in mice", "single study", "small study" and about 14 other disclaimers to every HN title about science. If you care desperately about "in mice" find a less "general interest" news source.

“Room temperature superconductivity discovered in mice.” would be an interesting turn of events at least.

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Post by Zetice »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #233
onurcel wrote: post #193

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Realistically, with the title you suggest nobody would have read the post. A title is not "the most informative and complete sentence summarizing the article", it also has the goal to stimulate curiosity. I understand that we don't want misleading titles but this obsession on titles is not very helpful. I am participating in this useless conversation but I couldn't help myself. Now every single HN post has a comment…

> A title is not "the most informative and complete sentence summarizing the article", it also has the goal to stimulate curiosity. Are you advocating clickbait?

Why did you italicize a word? Why speak with any emotion ever? Why not focus exclusively on the optimal method of transferring information from one being to another?

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Post by stjohnswarts »

onurcel wrote: post #193
freehorse wrote: post #25

> Researchers using mouse models found that altering the CaMKII brain protein caused similar cognitive effects as those that happen through normal aging. This should be the title of the article. Honestly these supposedly dissemination articles do not offer much more than reading the abstract or skimming a bit through the article itself. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.ade5892

Realistically, with the title you suggest nobody would have read the post. A title is not "the most informative and complete sentence summarizing the article", it also has the goal to stimulate curiosity. I understand that we don't want misleading titles but this obsession on titles is not very helpful. I am participating in this useless conversation but I couldn't help myself. Now every single HN post has a comment…

It could be slightly dumbed down for non-bio people such as myself but kept the "flavor" of the article title

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Post by Zetice »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #235
Ensorceled wrote: post #231

Apparently we should add "in mice", "single study", "small study" and about 14 other disclaimers to every HN title about science. If you care desperately about "in mice" find a less "general interest" news source.

> Apparently we should add "in mice", "single study", "small study" and about 14 other disclaimers to every HN title about science. That would be nice, yes. Otherwise there's an endless stream of "revolutionary" discoveries that turn out to be nothing.

And what a tragedy that would be. Positively unrecoverable, we might end up remembering we’re not experts, this is not a scientific website, and fun/excitement/entertainment is a good thing.

Re: Scientists may have found mechanism behind cognitive decline in aging

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Post by Zetice »

zug_zug wrote: post #229

No offense to everybody upvoting this type of thing, but claims like this seem to outweigh any actual tangible result by 100 or 1000 to 1. I think it's a better use of everybody time to say "Well, let's just wait until it's replicated in humans until we share articles"

There is no world in which HN is not a “waste” of time.

This notion that HN must only be for “serious” conversations about serious submissions is a wholesale misunderstanding of what HN is.

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