This attitude is not helpful and actively damaging. Small sample sizes in science do serve a purpose: to get larger studies funded.
It's as if the top comment to every ShowHN post was: "Not at $200mm in funding. Nothing to see here."
It's as if the top comment to every ShowHN post was: "Not at $200mm in funding. Nothing to see here."
As for why it is news, a lot of hackers are interested in mental health and mindfulness+meditation specifically and would be interested in more cutting edge news about it, rather than what ends up in the NYTimes 8 months later.