Archived Scientists confirm a structural similarity found in both human cells and neutron stars (phys.org)
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Archived Scientists confirm a structural similarity found in both human cells and neutron stars (phys.org)
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[–] 6705721? 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
The use of the word "human" implies that the endoplasmic reticulum structure is unique to Humans, but it's NOT. Even plants have it. http://www.els.net/WileyCDA/ElsArticle/refId-a0001673.html
[–] 1nv1ctus [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
What do you think a better headline would have been? Just take out the word 'human' altogether? Or substitute 'human cells' with 'eukaryotic cells'?
[–] 6705776? 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
Replace "human cells" with "the endoplasmic reticulum of living cells"
This is an issue in popular science reporting - using words like "observe" that lay persons think means a human being observing, but it means no such thing, and the rest is history - the confusion between the collapse of a wave function and "observation" will probably continue forever in the pop-science mind.