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Japanese researchers identify protein with potential to prevent aging (interestingengineering.com)

submitted 10 months ago by sanqueue to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 10 months ago (5 children)

This sounds like one of those sciency bullshit articles where
a) the study was on a subcategory of proteins that in some very boring and specific cases influence the aging of a certain type of cell in a minor way
b) the study was a miniscule pilot study with 10 participants
c) it explicitly said that it's results are more than shaky and need further testing to prove anything
d) it didn't mention humans aging at all
e) the participants were some kind of worm

but some journalist read half the excerpt, misunderstood it completely and did a catchy article about what he hallucinated into the study.

[–] Mostly_Gristle 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The state of science reporting has been absolute dog shit for decades. The vast majority of the time when you track down the study an article is based on, the claims of the article are either massively exaggerated, or sometimes even completely different than what the article claims. It seems like a whole industry of taking fairly mundane studies and punching them up into some exciting pieces of short fiction. So many years of garbage reporting has me immediately skeptical of any article with a bold claim, or which mentions any kind of significant breakthrough.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Coffee cures cancer... no, it causes cancer... it cures cancer, but only when drank with half a tablespoon of wine... but wine causes cancer... no cures it... no it does both but only with chocolate... chocolate cures cancer... no it causes cancer... no it... and so on and so forth....

This half-assed, sensationalistic reporting of studies that are completely insignificant outside of a specific case in their respective fields causes so much harm when it comes to the trust of people in science.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Hey now! It might not even be a journalist doing the hallucinating nowadays. We can get the robots to hallucinate for us!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

And thousands of people everywhere read that title, didn't bother looking a single bit into it, and are now repeating to everyone they know "Japan cured aging!" until someone corrects them.

[–] skeezix 2 points 10 months ago

Hey, clicks make money!! /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

also there are aging studies that indicate getting damage cells to self destruct helps being healthier as you age so you want to increase senescence rather than reduce it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Now imagine if the rich people funding this bullshit hoping to live forever on their yachts put their money back in to society instead, so that the rest of us might also consider living longer a bonus rather than a punishment...

[–] kokesh 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Something Earth needs...

[–] muntedcrocodile 5 points 10 months ago

Death is the final disease.