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Re:Postmortem assessment of olfactory tissue degeneration in... by slg on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @01:46PM (#31005977)
>A better, more accurate title would be: "covid smell loss do to inflammation in the olfactory bulb".

I'm a layperson. Like many laypeople, I would have no idea what the "olfactory bulb" was if I saw it in a headline, but the Wikipedia page for it starts with "The olfactory bulb (Latin: bulbus olfactorius) is a neural structure of the vertebrate forebrain...". It certainly sounds like "brain" is a fair and accurate summary.

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Re:Postmortem assessment of olfactory tissue degeneration in... by timr on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @01:49PM (#31006020)
If you're a "layperson" and resorting to reading wikipedia, then you really have no basis to draw any conclusion. But you're extremely willing to jump to scary conclusions, and disregard people who understand the paper and terminology and tell you that your conclusion is wrong.
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Re:Postmortem assessment of olfactory tissue degeneration in... by slg on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @01:56PM (#31006113)
I think there is an implicit assumption that HN titles shouldn't be written in jargon that most people reading it won't understand.
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Re:Postmortem assessment of olfactory tissue degeneration in... by timr on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @04:00PM (#31007582)
It's a medical paper. It isn't written for non-practitioners, and if you don't understand it, the best thing to do is not to speculate, but to reserve judgment.
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Re:Postmortem assessment of olfactory tissue degeneration in... by slg on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @04:43PM (#31008016)
I don't know what your point is considering I never speculated about anything in these comments. Ironically enough, you seem to be speculating about what people might speculate about when they see that headline.
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Re:Postmortem assessment of olfactory tissue degeneration in... by timr on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @05:02PM (#31008198)
> I'm a layperson. Like many laypeople, I would have no idea what the "olfactory bulb" was if I saw it in a headline...It certainly sounds like "brain" is a fair and accurate summary.
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Re:Postmortem assessment of olfactory tissue degeneration in... by slg on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @05:13PM (#31008293)
It is funny how something starts to seem more like speculation when you conveniently throw an ellipsis over the part in which I cite the source where the "speculation" came from.

I wasn't speculating. I was quoting Wikipedia.

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