CaptainPatent

The only way this suit ends well for humanity is if at the end the judge has enough common sense to issue a multimillion dollar settlement back to the scientists named to absolutely chill this type of corporate behavior immediately.

It almost certainly won’t happen and we’re probably fucked… But hey, we can dream, right?!

I’m still waiting for my Equifax payout…

This is definitely interesting… However I would caveat this with the fact that in the past, Nature & Science have both previously published more than their fair share of studies that would later be retracted for lack of reproducibility.

Most of this is due to the fact that when you’re a publication on the bleeding edge and there’s a lot of mid-term name and career recognition that comes with being published there, there’s also a higher level of academic fraud that can happen to get there.

I would keep a cautious eye out for retractions as well as labs that attempt to reproduce results… I also want to dig deeper and see if the mouse studies done had replication attempts by different labs as well and I won’t have a ton of time to do that today, but regardless it’s certainly a potentially a large breakthrough in cognition if it holds up.