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

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[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 102 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 24 points 3 weeks ago

Why would you want the mystery virus to reproduce?

[-] Orbituary@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's not a virus, and I think that @TachyonTele@lemm.ee was saying that they'd like the study reproduced, not the Obelisks.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 45 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 12 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Don't kink shame me

[-] TH1NKTHRICE@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 weeks 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.