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While certainly an interesting development, this is just in a petri dish.
Every science article, every single one. They always make things sound like breakthroughs and I have to come in the comments to find out it's bullshit or exaggerations. Why?
so that people click the link
Jokes on them, I did not, I just read the most popular Lemmy comment.
The truth is they use this as a way to secure additional funding, or show existing grants that progress is being made.
Whenever you feel the need to ask why in a capitalistic driven society, the answer usually ends up being: "money".
Rtfm?
The headline is clickbait. The article ends with
I get more frustrated with articles like this than true clickbait. Here’s a genuine breakthrough in science, in an important health area: we should be excited, happy, inspired. Instead we’re annoyed by a misleading clickbait headline
Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article.
I think its to emphasize the importance of what seems small and boring out of context. Even though it may border on being misleading, I certainly would rather read extrapolations by informed journalists than be left not knowing which conclusions are important to me after reading a scientific publication.
Maybe view this stuff as a gradual accumulation not as a world changing event. As others ITT pointed out there was fuck all medical science could do about this disease in the era of Reagan Christians laughing about it. Now you can get it and live almost a normal life, provided you live in a wealthy country. The virus is dying not with a bang but with a whimper.
To be fair, every 'breakthrough' starts small and takes decades before reaching the public.
Lithium-ion batteries are my favorite example because we take them for granted but the technology to make them was proven in the 70s.
Yep, might as well have used bleach.
That's not even remotely the same thing.
Some of you really need to stay off the internet.