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'Obelisks': Entirely New Class of Life Has Been Found in The Human Digestive System (www.sciencealert.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Hopefully it gets peer reviewed soon. It's interesting but I would like to see it reproduced before we say it was discovered.

In a study that has yet to be peer reviewed

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Why would you want the mystery virus to reproduce?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's not a virus, and I think that @[email protected] was saying that they'd like the study reproduced, not the Obelisks.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I know that my comment deserved an "/s" since I was playing off of unclear pronouns and the article's use of "virus-like," but I felt that admitting that I was in on the joke undermined the humor. I stand by my choice and accept my downvotes for the chuckles.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That was a joke?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Behold my humor: subtle, confusing, and mostly for myself

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You took your shot at subtle, fartographer. It didn't pass muster as much as gas.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"It didn't pass muster as much as gas" is now my favorite phrase of the week. I'm stealing that to throw in everyone's faces and act all smug and sophisticated when I say it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Behold my humor: smug, sophisticated, and incomprehensible online.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just like my farts!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Your farts are for myself? I collect weird things...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Because they're not a virus. And they're a new discovery, we don't know how they reproduce.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Don't kink shame me

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

This article is from January. It has since been peer reviewed and published in Cell. But, having been peer reviewed has no bearing on reproducibility unless within this study they were to have multiple independent groups repeat their experiments. Which I don’t think they did. Still, good study I think.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm a peer. I pee at least 6 times a day; more if I'd had a lot of water that day. Can I review it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

As a for-profit company that publishes scientific papers FOR MONEY, youre a perfect fit for our org. Welcome aboard!