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by glofish 2390 days ago
This is about junk science - that is the true danger and bottleneck to science - that reward for making unsubstantiated but grandiose claims. These do far more damage than potentially unfair criticism.

I am a scientist by profession and I have come to believe that the majority of work in this field is wasted because people chase that 5-minute fame. Once you are in the field you can smell the stink a mile away.

It always sounds the same: "A second genetic code discovered", "Touch reflected in the DNA", "Next cure for cancer", "Scientists can edit now genes at high fidelity with CRISPR" all pure bullshit.