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by martingoodson 2106 days ago
This comment displays a remarkable ignorance of scientific history. Why do you think Ramon y Cajal shared the Nobel prize, for discovering neurons, with Golgi, who 'simply' invented the staining method?
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Inventing a method isn’t the same a re-implementing an existing method! Again, useful re-implementations are a good thing that people should be rewarded for somehow, but they are not new science.