The real question: how the hell did it get published Nature? PLoS One, yeah...but Nature? Unless the method behind the computer modeling was entirely novel, I don't see how such a non-story made it into such an established journal.
There is no biology here, so no diseases to cure so in the minds of the ignorant it is wasted money. I'm not surprised but definitely annoyed.
I think it has less to do with the fact that CERN isn't tied to a biomedical center and more to do with the fact that so much money has been put into a project that has yet to run a real experiment, let alone yield real results. Yes, biomedical sciences are granted an exuberant amount of money every year, but that field is also producing results. That's the nature of science: Producing results = more grant money. When CERN launches again in the fall and starts churning out data, it too can access more funds once again. The old adage remains true: publish or perish.
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The real question: how the hell did it get published Nature? PLoS One, yeah...but Nature? Unless the method behind the computer modeling was entirely novel, I don't see how such a non-story made it into such an established journal.
There is no biology here, so no diseases to cure so in the minds of the ignorant it is wasted money. I'm not surprised but definitely annoyed.
I think it has less to do with the fact that CERN isn't tied to a biomedical center and more to do with the fact that so much money has been put into a project that has yet to run a real experiment, let alone yield real results. Yes, biomedical sciences are granted an exuberant amount of money every year, but that field is also producing results. That's the nature of science: Producing results = more grant money. When CERN launches again in the fall and starts churning out data, it too can access more funds once again. The old adage remains true: publish or perish.