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Re:An experiment suggested by a PhD student may rewrite chem... by tomp on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:04AM (#23640217)
If you put a title "may rewrite chemistry books" on top of an article about "a new paper worth reading", you're doing it wrong. Classical click-bait at best, fake news at worst.
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Re:An experiment suggested by a PhD student may rewrite chem... by lallysingh on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:30AM (#23640488)
If it causes one line of chem textbooks to change, it's fit the claim. Not a very high standard, just sexy sounding.
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Re:An experiment suggested by a PhD student may rewrite chem... by snakeboy on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:48AM (#23640705)
"rewrite" obviously implies a much larger change, in my opinion.

After passing a constitutional amendment, would it not be misleading to declare "The US rewrites the constitution" ?

If a 2nd edition of a novel includes a new preface, it would be misleading to advertise the book as "re-written".

You see it as "sexy sounding", I see it as intentionally misleading about the significance of the result.

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