Ancestors

Written by jaseg on 2025-01-05 at 17:51

Today in irresponsible #science marketing bullshit: #UWaterloo puts out a real turd of a press release, linked below.

The press release: "[our stuff] senses glucose levels for diabetics more accurately than ever before"

The actual research: basically a better antenna that can distinguish between distilled water and a ~25000 mg/dL glucose solution absent any other factors. For context: At around 500 mg/dL you're dead.

Link to the press release:

https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/no-more-needles-tracking-blood-sugar-your-wrist

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Toot

Written by tall one on 2025-01-05 at 18:23

@jaseg The general audience sets its impression of science from science click-bait. I see this as a problem.

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Written by jaseg on 2025-01-05 at 18:26

@dpetravick yeah. I think there is a legitimate challenge here: How do you get laypeople interested in sometimes very arcane academic research? Just making up shit like they did in that press release (albeit shrouded in carefully worded non-statements) definitely isn’t the way though.

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