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by nitwit005 932 days ago
Yep, the headline is a deliberate lie to make the story more appealing.
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Ironically, you also added the word “deliberately” to make your comment more appealing without any evidence
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> Ironically, you also added the word “deliberately” to make your comment more appealing without any evidence

Yes.

Fun.

A short comment is not the place for evidence.

I could criticise it for hyperbole but actually the thing I do not like is mor e gratuitous unesecsary adjectives....

Given a startling crisp headline for a mild wishy washy article it is reasonable to assume deliberation.

But is it a lie? Or measly an exaggeration?

I care a lot, it's good

You believe they accidentally misrepresented the scientists who never mentioned the concept in the headline? Come on.

There is an endless stream of these headlines that misrepresent the scientific claims in a way that just happens to seem designed to make the article more appealing. I'm sure it's all pure coincidence.

I don't know, I can't imagine they accidentally wrote that bit in the headline.
you turned

> "you added the word “deliberately”

into

> Ironically, you also added the word “deliberately” to make your comment more appealing without any evidence

with no evidence, theory of mind, nor sense of irony apparent.