I also hope this research pans out, but holy crap am I sick of the state of science reporting. For at least the last like 25 years everyone seems to just find a study (any study) with some tenuously promising result under some very specific conditions, and then they write a big ol’ science fiction story about how it’s going to save humanity. Just zero rigor. And about half the time when I’m able to track down the actual study the story is based on, what the study says and what the article says it says aren’t just a little different, often it’s night and day.
At this point I think I’d even treat a headline like, “new research concludes that water can make things wet,” with skepticism.
I also hope this research pans out, but holy crap am I sick of the state of science reporting. For at least the last like 25 years everyone seems to just find a study (any study) with some tenuously promising result under some very specific conditions, and then they write a big ol’ science fiction story about how it’s going to save humanity. Just zero rigor. And about half the time when I’m able to track down the actual study the story is based on, what the study says and what the article says it says aren’t just a little different, often it’s night and day.
At this point I think I’d even treat a headline like, “new research concludes that water can make things wet,” with skepticism.