[onurcel]

Realistically, with the title you suggest nobody would have read the post.

A title is not "the most informative and complete sentence summarizing the article", it also has the goal to stimulate curiosity. I understand that we don't want misleading titles but this obsession on titles is not very helpful. I am participating in this useless conversation but I couldn't help myself. Now every single HN post has a comment on how the title is wrong..

[coldtea]

>A title is not "the most informative and complete sentence summarizing the article", it also has the goal to stimulate curiosity.

It shouldn't have to do the latter. That's clickbait. People are either organically curious about what actually happened or they are not. If they are not, they shouldn't be "stimulated" with BS. That "media/advetising" attitude is the cause behind many issues with science in society today.

[sillysaurusx]

Ehh. We’ve been here long enough to both know that there’s a balance. $10 says the mods won’t change the title to the suggested one, precisely because of this balance.

It’s not about clickbaiting. The whole reason the research is getting funded in the first place is to try to find the link.

[johnnyanmac]

>It shouldn't have to do the latter. That's clickbait.

clickbait generally has an implication of incorrectly representing the content. romanticized titles aren't always clickbait, and I wouldn't say this is exactly a sensationalist tite like how others may say "We're on the first road to curing Alzheimer's disease".

>People are either organically curious about what actually happened or they are not.

it's a prisoner's dilemma. It's not necessarily zero sum, but attention is somewhat finite. And for some sites, the result isn't a more comfy high quality community. It just dies out, and that benefits no one.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

> A title is not "the most informative and complete sentence summarizing the article", it also has the goal to stimulate curiosity.

Are you advocating clickbait?

[Zetice]

Why did you italicize a word? Why speak with any emotion ever? Why not focus exclusively on the optimal method of transferring information from one being to another?

[JoshuaDavid]

How about

> Researchers found aging-like cognitive effects in mice by altering the CaMKII brain protein

Only 3 more words than the original, but contains quite a bit more information about what exactly the claim is while still having a strong "hook".

[stjohnswarts]

It could be slightly dumbed down for non-bio people such as myself but kept the "flavor" of the article title