Comment Re:Point of Diminishing Returns? (Score 1) 139
Stuff beyond Pentium 3 has not been revolutionary, performance wise, for a desktop.
It has. You've been living under a rock.
Stuff beyond Pentium 3 has not been revolutionary, performance wise, for a desktop.
It has. You've been living under a rock.
It's an issue of self-selection. This material would never have gotten into a decent biology journal because the biologist reviewers would just go "WTF". So the only journal they managed to get this into is one that is apparently reviewed by physicists who don't pay any attention to claims outside their fields of expertise, so at best they just vetted the theoretical physics in the paper, paying no attention to the chemistry or biology in it.
The first author seems prone to making hyperbolic statements - even the paper itself is riddled with unsupported statements, but the press release is really something. I think some people at Princeton are going to be pretty embarrassed about this soon.
This seems to me to be a headline grabber with little to no actual relevance to the research within.
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This was found in the electron transport chain, which occurs in the mitochondria, which have their own DNA
First, they never modified anything in vivo. They used some pretty complicated statistics to predict mutation-induced chemical variations, then called that "experimental evidence". Second, are you sure the electron transport chain proteins are coded by mitochondrial DNA? In either case, I'm not sure if mitochondrial DNA has any proofreading activity at all.
The sheer number of biological nonsense stuffed into this paper boggles the mind, and then I look at the press release and just start laughing. It's written in a physics journal from a heavily theoretical chemistry perspective, but it's pretty clear that the authors don't understand biology nearly well enough to make the claims they make.
Like others said: aspirin is more dangerous than other painkillers. It has serious side effects and is easier to OD on. This is why lots of people don't use aspirin at all. I kind of wish that what the summary said came true and it got kicked off the market - lots of people don't know that it's more dangerous than other painkillers.
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