[intsunny]

The article about the study writes: `The study has not yet been peer-reviewed.`

We should just stop reading the article then and there. This is a major method of how a single study can perpetuate fake science and fake news.

[verisimi]

> This is a major method of how a single study can perpetuate fake science and fake news.

It's a feature, not a bug.

[1970-01-01]

Clickbait is a bug tagged with WON'T FIX

[jfengel]

We should, but we don't.

People want the news now. They don't want to wait for it to be peer reviewed, or even cursorily checked. There is an infinite maw for information, and it has already consumed every single known fact.

If you want science, you'll wait a month, because it's not actually urgent. These species waited hundreds of millions of years and it'll still be there in a few weeks.

If you want entertainment, you want it right this instant. And that's what LiveScience exists to do.

So you really should have stopped reading as soon as you saw the URL.