Titles like this make me angry. Sometimes it feels like an insult to my intelligence. Just tell me what it’s about and stop making stuff up.
I make a point of not clicking on such articles, or really anything with click bait titles if I can avoid it.
You have to remember... those headlines aren't for you. They're for the average idiot who isn't even remotely interested in the scientific mumbo jumbo and allbthat highly technical gobbledygook. They want to be spoonfed a statement they can parrot to a co-worker and move on with their day being a terrible consumer of info.
I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend lately, and I wonder if the way these headlines are written is feeding it: creationist articles have been slipping into my science news feed, usually riffing off whatever bullshit alarmist/exaggerated headlines spread through the popsci realm the day before.
If you don’t know what you’re looking at (and most people don’t), you’ll wind up reading creationist propaganda when you think you’re reading a science article.
I've added words like may, could, might etc to my lemmy filter to get rid of these articles
Given that quantum theory and general relativity are incompatible, something has to give.
Also, general relativity requires dark matter and energy to explain cosmological data, but particle physics has yet to capture the faintest indication of something supposedly 5x more common than visible matter.
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the single biggest pet peeve that i have is when somebody says something like "X is good for you in Y situations under Z conditions" and then everybody immediately goes "X is good for you, do more X" This happens so often i'm starting to think we shouldn't allow people to have opinions anymore.
like it's so easy to just, not say something silly, or stupid.
Or the opposite even! We replaced a mouse's blood with artificial sweetener and that mouse died of super cancer. Ergo, artificial sweetener will give you super cancer.
yeah. There are so many problems with so many things in so many ways.
It really doesn't help that people like to grasp onto the "ultimate" truth when it comes to this stuff. Even when there are good arguments for things people will fall head over heels down a mountain just to make a bad argument.
and it just pains me, i'm not mad (ok i might be a little mad, or maybe a lot) but i'm (also) disappointed in them as well, because we can collectively do better as a species, but we just, choose not to.
i mean, for the love of god shitpost as much as you want, i love shitposting, it's the best, but just, read my posts on eudaimonia if you have to. It's worth the effort, and it will greatly improve your life. (maybe not my posts, but stop being silly, please.)
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In fairness sometimes small tiny differences like that do turn out to be significant. But measurement error usually wins out most of the time
Then there's things like:
"Passing through the magnetic field, exactly half the electrons went UP, and exactly half the electrons went DOWN", and classical physics went OUT through the quantum window.
The title on this article is one of my favorite gems:
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/scientific-breakthrough-mysterious-cosmic-metal-190000695.html
Cosmic metal?
Is that some kind of refined variation of unobtanium?
(Without reading more… I’m just going to assume they mean meteoric iron? Though the title does read like a prompt for a b-tier sci-fi that ends with Kirk trying to put his dick into something he absolutely shouldn’t put his dick into.)
Is it an urgent space-gem?
I enjoyed reading that. I'm no chemist or physicist, but that sounds like it could be a cool real world thing. Care to shatter my ignorance?
From what I understand its a Nickel alloy that has good magnetic properties which can replace rare earth alloys for magnets that renewable technology is heavily reliant on. At face value yes this would be pretty big, but in terms of actual real world practicality on replacing rare earth magnets I really couldn't tell you. Most science articles tend to oversell scientific breakthroughs in my experience, science is slow and incremental, if it's a real breakthrough the technology tends to catch fire fairly quickly before any articles are written on it
Science journalism is mostly a joke. Worst of all medical journalism.
Every time
Doesn't the evidence keep piling up for Orch-OR?
Not that I've seen
Is there any experimental evidence?
No. It's all a bit hand-wavy and nebulous tbh; I think the only leg it'll have to stand on will be if and when entanglement effects are seen to have a predictive power over complex states that we simply haven't seen; and IMO at that point it ceases to be an argument about consciousness anyway
No
