This low-effort comment is popping up more and more.
I would say just assume the title has "in mouse disease model" at the end of it.
Then we can get away from the large dismissive negativity spiral that all of these threads turn into.
I would say just assume the title has "in mouse disease model" at the end of it.
Then we can get away from the large dismissive negativity spiral that all of these threads turn into.
The title is clickbait. It claims there is an effective treatment for ALS.
It is so bogus. In mice should be added to the title.
Thank you, GP, for the “in mice” comment. In this case it was absolutely crucial for me getting what was going on.
Typically it's 10-20 years after animal studies such as mice or monkeys before you can expect doctors to have it available. And that's assuming everything work just right.
This is the same mistake MANY people make when some new wonder-technology is announced from university labs - it's another 20 years before an economically viable product that actually is available to consumers will be appearing. It's often called the "20 year rule". New battery technology could solve green energy? But it's just a lab discovery? Nope. Not anytime soon!!
I recently did a study of this for penicillin: it was almost exactly 20 years from Fleming discovering it to when consumers could get it from their doctors or hospitals post-WW2!
Transistors didn't start to eclipse vacuum tubes in consumer electronics until 20 years after the invention of the transistor (1948 to early 1970s). Same for integrated circuits - 20 years before the Silicon Valley boom took off (1959 to mid-to-late 1970s) and consumers started to benefit with PCs.
I'd say the problem is less with journalism in this instance, and more-so with peoples limited attention spans.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356971571_Therapeut...
Admittedly, I should probably assume that anything relating to Alzheimer's or Parkinson's has an implicit "(in mice)" tag.
If someone reads the article, they see where it says this is in a mouse model of an uncommon form of ALS.
The title is deceiving and it should contain mice. And such criticism are okay in my book.